NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)Microdata access: Request Geography Zimbabwe (ZWE) Coverage type Country Time period covered 08/2005 - 02/2006 Series or system DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) DHS Program Surveys Data type Survey: Cross-sectionalGPS coordinates (GIS)HouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representativeUrban-rural representative Summary The Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey 2005-2006 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. Keywords Abortion, Abortive outcome, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Alcohol use, Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antibiotics, 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, Child anthropometry, Childhood sexual violence, Circumcision, Complete birth history, Condoms, Congestion, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Domestic violence, Education, Electricity, Employment, Secondhand smoke, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female infertility, Fever, Food, HIV and AIDS, Health behaviors, Health care use, Health insurance, Health literacy, Health status, Height, Hemoglobin, Hemolytic anemias, Hepatitis B vaccines, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Household deaths, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, IUDs, Immunization, Indoor residual spraying, Infant care, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Injections, Insecticide-treated bednets, Intimate partner violence, 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, Occupation codes, Occupations, PMTCT, Pain, Parental survival, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Pregnancy complications, Prevalence, Preventive interventions, Prices, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Sexual violence, Sibling survival [Do not use], Siblings, Skilled birth attendants, Smokeless tobacco use, Spermicides, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Tuberculosis, Unintentional injuries, Upper respiratory infections, Vaccination cards, Vitamin A supplements, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight, Complete sibling history Citation Contributors Central Statistical Office (Zimbabwe) Macro International, Inc Funders United States Agency for International Development (USAID) United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Department for International Development (DFiD) (United Kingdom) President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Government of Zimbabwe Publisher ICF International Suggested citation Central Statistical Office (Zimbabwe), Macro International, Inc. Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey 2005-2006. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International. GHDx Entry last modified on: Jul 24, 2024