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Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2006

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General Info
Provider 
Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)
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Geography 
Uganda (UGA)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
04/2006 - 10/2006
Series or system 
DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS)
DHS Program Surveys
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • De facto
  • GPS coordinates (GIS)
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Subnationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
  • Verbal autopsy
Summary 

The Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2006 is part of phase 5 of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Topics commonly covered in DHS include education, health, nutrition, family planning, and household characteristics.

A sub sample of participants from the 2006 Uganda DHS were interviewed for the 2007 Uganda Child Verbal Autopsy Study (UCVAS).

Keywords 
Abortion, Abortive outcome, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Alcohol use, Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antibiotics, Antihelminthics, Antimalarials, Antimotility drugs, Aplastic and other non-nutritional anemias, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth certificates, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Blood tests, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section ...  [View more]
GHDx Entry last modified on: Mar 19, 2025