NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)Microdata access: Request Geography Peru (PER) Coverage type Country Time period covered 03/2009 - 11/2009 Series or system DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) DHS Program Surveys DHS Peru Continuous DHS Data type Survey: GPS coordinates (GIS)HouseholdInterviewNationally representative Summary The Peru Continuous Demographic and Health Survey (Continuous DHS) 2009 is part of DHS5, a nationally representative household survey series. Topics commonly covered in DHS include child and maternal health, family planning, nutrition, health behavior and knowledge, health care access and use, and immunization. DHS also provides data for tracking progress toward Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). For the 2009 Peru Continuous DHS, 24,212 women age 15-49 were successfully interviewed from 26,988 households. Keywords Abortion, Abortive outcome, Adult mortality, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Analgesics, Anemia, Anogenital herpes, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antibiotics, Antihelminthics, Antimalarials, Antimotility drugs, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth control pills, Blood tests, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Child anthropometry, Child health care, Child mortality, Children, Community health clinics, Complete birth history, Condoms, Congestion, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diarrhea, Domestic violence, Drug consumption, Education, Education access, Electricity, Emergency care, Emergency contraception, Employment, Environmental hazards, FFQ, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female infertility, Fever, Gestational age, Gonococcal infections, Health care access, Health care use, Health facilities, Health insurance, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Height, Hemoglobin, Hepatitis B vaccines, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hygiene, Hysterectomy, IUDs, Immunization, Infant care, Infant mortality, Influenza vaccines, Injectable contraceptives, Injections, Internet, Intimate partner violence, Iodine supplements, Iron supplements, Land ownership, Lifestyle risk factors, Lighting, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Living conditions, Lower respiratory infections, MMR vaccines, Malaria, Male infertility, Marital status, Mass media, Maternal care, Maternal conditions, Maternal health, Maternal mortality, Measles vaccines, Menopause, Menstruation, Mortality, Multiple births, Needle sharing, Night blindness, Nonprofits, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, Parental survival, Pentavalent vaccines, Personal health expenditures, Pesticides, Pharmacies, Place of delivery, Pneumococcal vaccines, Polio vaccines, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Pregnancy complications, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, Rotavirus vaccines, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Sexual violence, Skilled birth attendants, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Upper respiratory infections, Vaccination cards, Vitamin A supplements, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight, Yellow fever vaccines, Zinc, Complete sibling history Citation Contributors National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (Peru) ORC Macro Funders United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Ministry of Economy and Finance (Peru) Publisher ICF International Suggested citation National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (Peru), ORC Macro. Peru Continuous Demographic and Health Survey 2009. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International. GHDx Entry last modified on: Jul 24, 2024