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 Features 
Birth registration 
Birth registration A question on birth registration asked about each household member under the age of 5 years.  |   
 
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 Cooking fuel 
Cooking fuel A question asking the household respondent about the type of cooking fuel used by the household. These are included as part of the core questionnaire.  |   
 
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 Early childhood education 
Early childhood education A question asking the household respondent if usual household members age 4-24 years attended an early childhood education program. In DHS-8, this question is included in 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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 Iodine salt test 
Iodine salt test Household salt tested for the presence of iodine.  |   
 
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 Malaria questions 
Malaria questions Questions asking women about anti-malarial medication received during pregnancy and anti-malarial medication given to young children, as well as questions asking household respondents about household mosquito net ownership and use.  |   
 
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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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 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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 Biomarkers 
Anthropometry 
Anthropometry  description not available  |   
 
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 Modules 
Child discipline 
Child discipline A set of questions asking the household respondent about common discipline methods used with one randomly selected household member age 1-14 years. These questions are from a MICS module developed by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).  |   
 
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 Early childhood development index (ECDI) 
Early childhood development index (ECDI) A set of questions asking the mother about her children age 2-4 years to obtain information on the overall level of development that a child has reached according to his/her age across three interrelated domains - health, learning and psychosocial well-being. These questions are from a MICS module developed by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). In DHS-8, the MICS7 Early Childhood Development Index (ECDI) module replaced the MICS6 Early Childhood Developemnt (ECD) module.  |   
 
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 Maternal mortality 
Maternal mortality A set of questions asking about all siblings of the respondent (children born to the respondent's biological mother) concerning their sex, age, survival status, and whether the death was pregnancy-related. Questions are used to estimate maternal mortality, pregnancy-related mortality, and adult mortality. Typically asked of women only but in some surveys asked of men as well.  |   
 
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