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Features
Abortion
Abortion Questions asking women about pregnancies that ended in an abortion. Includes pregnancy histories where abortion is mentioned as an outcome or when a question such as "Did you or someone else do something to end this pregnancy?" is used. |
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Alcohol consumption
Alcohol consumption Questions asking about the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
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Blood pressure questions
Blood pressure questions Questions asking if individuals have been diagnosed with high blood pressure also known as hypertension. These questions are now included in the chronic diseases module. This does not include blood pressure measurement which is recorded as a biomarker. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
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Breast cancer screening questions
Breast cancer screening questions Questions asking women if they have been screened for breast cancer. In DHS-8, a single question is included in the core questionnaire and additional questions are included in the chronic diseases module. |
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Calendar
Calendar The DHS calendar is a month by month history of certain key reproductive and contraceptive key events in the life of the woman respondent for the 5 years preceding the interview. |
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Cervical cancer screening questions
Cervical cancer screening questions Questions asking women if they have been screened for cervical cancer. In DHS-8, these questions are included in the core questionnaire and additional questions are included in the chronic diseases module. |
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Diabetes questions
Diabetes questions Questions asking individuals about awareness of or diagnosis with diabetes. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
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GPS/georeferenced
GPS/georeferenced Surveys with latitude and longitude coordinates for survey clusters. Note that cluster coordinates are randomly displaced to protect the privacy of respondents. |
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Health expenditures
Health expenditures Questions asking about the cost of healthcare services and/or healthcare items usually at the individual level. Can be asked of women and/or men. See also the out-of-pocket expenditures module which is asked at the household level. |
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Health insurance
Health insurance Questions asking about individual health insurance status. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
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HIV behavior
HIV behavior Questions asking individuals about behavioral risk factors related to the transmission of HIV. Can be asked of women and/or men. These are included as part of the core questionnaire. |
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HIV knowledge
HIV knowledge Questions asking individuals about their knowledge about HIV. Can be asked of women and/or men. These are included as part of the core questionnaire. |
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Men's survey
Men's survey Surveys that include men in addition to women as individual respondents. |
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Paper survey
Paper survey Interviews conducted with paper questionnaires which are later entered into a computer at a central office. |
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Pregnancy history
Pregnancy history A full enumeration of all pregnancies to women interviewed as opposed to a birth history which only includes live births. |
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Prostate cancer screening questions
Prostate cancer screening questions Questions asking men if they have been screened for prostate cancer. |
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Tobacco use
Tobacco use Questions asking individuals about the consumption of smoked and smokeless tobacco products. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
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Tuberculosis questions
Tuberculosis questions Questions asking individuals about their knowledge and attitudes about tuberculosis. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
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Vitamin A questions
Vitamin A questions Questions on whether a child received a vitamin A dose recently, or whether the mother received a dose after a delivery. These are included as part of the core questionnaire. |
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Women's status
Women's status Questions asking individuals about decision-making, ownership of house/land, use of banks, and other related questions. Can be asked of women and/or men. These are included as part of the core questionnaire. |
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