Demographic and Health Surveys - Surveys

Surveys

MEASURE DHS supports a range of data collection options:

  • Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS): provide data for a wide range of monitoring and impact evaluation indicators in the areas of population, health, and nutrition.
  • AIDS Indicator Surveys (AIS): provide countries with a standardized tool to obtain indicators for the effective monitoring of national HIV/AIDS programs.
  • Service Provision Assessment (SPA) Surveys: provide information about the characteristics of health and family planning services available in a country.
  • Malaria Indicators Surveys (MIS): Provide data on bednet ownership and use, prevention of malaria during pregnancy, and prompt and effective treatment of fever in young children. In some cases, biomarker testing for malaria and anemia are also included.
  • Key Indicators Survey (KIS): provide monitoring and evaluation data for population and health activities in small areas—regions, districts, catchment areas—that may be targeted by an individual project, although they can be used in nationally representative surveys as well.
  • Other Quantitative Data: include Geographic Data Collection, and Benchmarking Surveys.
  • Biomarker Collection: in conjunction with surveys, more than 2 million tests have been conducted for HIV, anemia, malaria, and more than 25 other biomarkers.
  • Qualitative Research: provides informed answers to questions that lie outside the purview of standard quantitative approaches.

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