NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)Microdata access: Request Geography Sierra Leone (SLE) Coverage type Country Time period covered 04/2008 - 06/2008 Series or system DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) DHS Program Surveys Data type Survey: GPS coordinates (GIS)HouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representativeUrban-rural representative Summary The Sierra Leone Demographic and Health Survey 2008 is part of phase five of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Topics typically covered include population, education, health, nutrition, family planning and household characteristics. This survey also included anthropometric measurements, HIV testing, and a malaria module. Keywords Abortion, Abortive outcome, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antihelminthics, Antimalarials, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth certificates, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Blood tests, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Child anthropometry, Child labor, Circumcision, Community health clinics, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, Counseling, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Diet, Dietary fiber, Dietary protein, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Emergency contraception, Employment, Secondhand smoke, Ethnicity, FFQ, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female circumcision, Female infertility, Fertility, Fever, Fish, Fishing, Fruits and vegetables, Gynecological diseases, HIV and AIDS, Health care access, Health care use, Health insurance, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Height, Hemoglobin, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Hours worked, Household air pollution, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, IUDs, Immunization, Infant care, Injectable contraceptives, Injections, Insecticide-treated bednets, Iodine supplements, Iron supplements, Land ownership, Length of stay, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Male infertility, Malnutrition, Marital status, Mass media, Maternal mortality, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Menstruation, Mortality, Multiple births, Neonatal conditions, Night blindness, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, PMTCT, Parental survival, Personal health expenditures, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Pregnancy complications, Preventive interventions, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Skilled birth attendants, Smokeless tobacco use, Spermicides, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Upper respiratory infections, Vaccination cards, Vitamin A supplements, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight, Zinc, Complete sibling history Citation Contributors Statistics Sierra Leone Macro International, Inc Funders United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Publisher ICF International Suggested citation Macro International, Inc, Statistics Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone Demographic and Health Survey 2008. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International. GHDx Entry last modified on: Jul 24, 2024