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Demographic and Health Program African Data 1986-2024

Africa, 1986 - 2024
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Reference ID
afr-dhsp-dhs-1986-2024-v1
Producer(s)
DHS Program, African Governments
Collections
DHS Program
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Nov 20, 2024
Last modified
Dec 01, 2024
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  • Identification
  • Scope
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data Collection
  • Data Access
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    afr-dhsp-dhs-1986-2024-v1
    Title

    Demographic and Health Program African Data 1986-2024
    Country
    Name Country code
    Africa afr
    Study type

    Demographic and Health Survey
    Abstract

    The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program is a USAID funded program that supports governments with their demographic and health data surveys and makes the data available on their website. Demographic and health data for 46 African countries https://www.dhsprogram.com/Countries/Country-List.cfm is available from the DHS site. Researchers can register their projects with the Program on the site to obtain access to this data https://www.dhsprogram.com/data/new-user-registration.cfm Reports for each survey round are also available from the site https://www.dhsprogram.com/publications/index.cfm
    Kind of Data

    Survey data
    Unit of Analysis

    Households and individuals

    Scope

    Notes

    The DHS Surveys collect data on fertility, family planning, maternal and child health, gender, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and nutrition.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    DHS Program
    African Governments
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name
    US Agency for International Development

    Data Collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    1986 2024 First to latest DHS rounds

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name URL
    DHS Program https://www.dhsprogram.com/data/available-datasets.cfm
    Access conditions

    Public access data for use under a Creative Commons CC-BY (Attribution-only) License

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Affiliation Email URL
    University of Cape Town support@data1st.org www.support.data1st.org

    Metadata production

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata producer
    Date of Metadata Production

    2024-12-01

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 2
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