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 Features 
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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 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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 Micronutrients 
Micronutrients Questions asking which foods and drinks were consumed by children in the 24 hours prior to the survey.  |   
 
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 Migration 
Migration Questions asking individuals about their prior residences if they have moved since birth. Can be asked of women and/or men.  |   
 
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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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 Social marketing 
Social marketing Questions asking individuals about the brands of condoms and pills used by respondents to identify the social marketing brands used in the country. Condom brands can be asked of women and/or men.  |   
 
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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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 Biomarkers 
Anthropometry 
Anthropometry  description not available  |   
 
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 Modules 
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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 Service availability 
Service availability A survey of communities and the services available in those communities, mostly used in earlier surveys up until about 2006. Not part of the household or individual questionnaires.  |   
 
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