Demographic and Health Surveys (Standard DHS, Individual Recode) // dhs

DHS Standard Surveys — Individual Recode (IR) file. ~90 low- and middle-income countries surveyed every ~5 years; the canonical dataset for fertility, child mortality, maternal health, contraception, gender, HIV and immunization research. Variables are harmonised across countries and waves so cross-country pooling is straightforward.

source: USAID — The DHS Program / ICF International · version: Standard recodes — country-wave specific · updated: rolling — typically 6-12 months after fieldwork · official page

common research uses

Demographic and Health Surveys — Individual Recode (women 15-49) registers 2947 variables — 6 commonly used as dependent variables, 4 as core regressors and 11 as controls. Common research directions for this dataset include: Female education and fertility (CEB), Wealth gradient in child mortality.

Female education and fertility (CEB): DV v201, IV v133, v106, controls v012, v025, v190.

Wealth gradient in child mortality: DV b5, IV v190, controls v012, v025, v106.

variables · 2947 entries

namelabeltype/roledata filedescription · keywords
caseidCase Identification
Case Identification (cluster + household + line)
identifier / identifierirUnique respondent identifier within survey
caseidid
v000Country Code and Phase
Country Code and Phase
identifier / controlir2-letter country code + DHS phase number (e.g. KE7 = Kenya phase 7)
countryphase
v001Cluster Number
Cluster (Primary Sampling Unit)
identifier / controlirPrimary sampling unit; required for variance estimation
clusterpsu
v005Sample Weight
Sample Weight (× 1,000,000)
continuous / controlirWomen's individual weight; divide by 1,000,000 before use
weightsampling
v007Year of Interview
Year of Interview
identifier / controlirYear of interview
yearinterview
v012Current Age
Current Age (years)
continuous / controlirCurrent age of respondent (15-49)
age
v025Type of Place of Residence
Urban / Rural
binary / controlirUrban or rural residence
urbanruralresidence
v106Highest Education Level
Highest Education Level (4-cat)
ordinal / iv,controlirHighest education level attained
educationschooling
v133Education in Single Years
Education — Single Years Completed
continuous / iv,controlirYears of completed education (single-year)
educationyears
v190Wealth Index
Wealth Index Quintile
ordinal / iv,controlirAsset-based wealth index in 5 quintiles
wealthassetses
v201Total Children Ever Born
Total Children Ever Born (CEB)
continuous / dvirTotal children ever born to respondent
fertilitychildrenceb
v213Currently Pregnant
Currently Pregnant
binary / dvirWhether respondent is currently pregnant
pregnancyfertility
v312Current Contraceptive Method
Current Contraceptive Method
categorical / dv,ivirCurrent contraceptive method (0=none, 1-19=specific methods)
contraceptionfamily planning
v501Marital Status
Marital Status
categorical / controlirCurrent marital / cohabiting status
maritalmarriage
b5Child is Alive
Child Currently Alive
binary / dvbrWhether the child from birth history is currently alive — used to construct under-5 mortality
child mortalityalive
b7Age at Death (months)
Age at Death of Child (months)
continuous / dvbrAge at death in months for deceased children
mortalitychildinfant
hw1Child's Age in Months
Child's Age in Months
continuous / controlkrChild's age in months at interview
childage
hw70Height-for-Age z-score
Height-for-Age Z-score (× 100, WHO 2006)
continuous / dvkrHeight-for-age z-score (× 100); HAZ < -2 = stunting; uses WHO 2006 reference
stuntinghazanthropometry
hv000Alphabetic country code to identify the survey from which the data were collected. The code is based on an internationalstring——
hv001Cluster number is the number identifying the sample point as used during the fieldwork. This variable may be a compositestring——
hv002Household number is the number identifying the household within the cluster or sample point. In some cases, this variablstring——
hv003Respondent's line number is the line number in the household schedule of the person responding to the questions asked instring——
hv004Ultimate area unit is a number assigned to each sample point to identify the ultimate area units used in the collection string——
hv005Sample weight is an 8 digit variable with 6 implied decimal places. To use the sample weight divide it by 1000000 beforestring——
hv006Month of the household interviewstring——
hv007Year of the household interviewstring——
hv008Century month code of date of interview, calculated from HV007 and HV006 (see note on century month codes)string——
hv008aCentury day code of date of interview, calculated from HV007, HV006 and HV016 (see note on century day codes)string——
hv009Total number of household members indicates the number of entries to be found in RECH1.string——
hv010Total number of eligible women indicates the number of women found eligible for the individual survey in the household sstring——
hv011Total number of eligible men indicates the number of men found eligible for the men's or husband's survey in the househostring——
hv012Total number of de jure household members gives the number of household members that usually live in the household.string——
hv013Total number of de facto household members gives the number of household members that slept in the household the previoustring——
hv014Number of children resident in the household and aged 5 and under. Visiting children are not included.string——
hv015Result of household interview. Code 1 represents a completed interview. For all other cases, only RECH0 will exist in thstring——
hv016Day of the household interviewstring——
hv017Number of visits for the household interviewstring——
hv018Interviewer identification code. Codes are country-specific.string——
hv019Data entry keyer code. Codes are country-specific.string——
hv020The ever-married sample indicator is a constant for all cases in the data file. For all woman samples it is code 0, and string——
hv021Primary sampling unit is a number assigned to sample points to identify the primary sampling units for use in the calculstring——
hv022The sample strata for sampling errors defines the pairings or groupings of primary sampling units used in the calculatiostring——
hv023The stratification used in the sample design defines the basic geographic units within which the sample was designed. Fostring——
hv024Region of residence in which the household resides. Codes are country-specific.string——
hv025Type of place of residence where the household resides as either urban or rural.string——
hv026Size of place of residence is the type of place in which the household resides. Urban areas are classified into large cistring——
hv027Selection for men's or husband's survey indicates whether the household was selected for the subset of households in whistring——
hv028Sample weight for men's or husband's survey is an 8 digit variable with 6 implied decimal places. To use the sample weigstring——
hv030Field supervisor's code. Codes are country-specific.string——
hv031Field editor's code. Codes are country-specific.string——
hv032Office editor's code. Codes are country-specific.string——
hv035Number of children under five eligible for height and weight. In DHS VII, the calculation is based on the Century Day Costring——
hv040Cluster altitude in meters. Used to adjust the anemia measurement for altitude.string——
hv041Number of women (and men) with for height and weight measured.string——
hv042Household selected for hemoglobin measurements.string——
hv044Household selected for the domestic violence module.string——
hv045aLanguage of the household questionnairestring——
hv045bLanguage used in the household interviewstring——
hv045cNative language of the household interview respondentstring——
hv046Translator used during the household interviewstring——
hv801Time of the start of the household interview. The first two digits give the time in hours using the 24-hour clock, and tstring——
hv802Time of the end of the household interview. Coded in the same format as for the start of interview.string——
hv803Length of interview in minutes is calculated from the previous two variables, but with interviews that required more thastring——
hv804Number of visits for the biomarker interviewstring——
hv807dDay of biomarker visitstring——
hv807mMonth of biomarker visitstring——
hv807yYear of biomarker visitstring——
hv807cCentury month code of date of biomarker visit, calculated from HV807Y and HV807M (see note on century month codes)string——
hv807aCentury day code of date of biomarker visit, calculated from HV807Y, HV807M and HV807D (see note on century day codes)string——
hv101Relationship to the head of the householdstring——
hv102Whether the member is a de jure household member, i.e., whether the member is a usual resident of the household.string——
hv103Whether the member is a de facto household member, i.e., whether the member slept in the household the previous night.string——
hv104Sex of the household memberstring——
hv105Age of the household memberstring——
hv106Highest level of education the household member attended. This is a standardized variable providing level of education istring——
hv107Highest year of education gives the years of education completed at the level given in HV106. BASE: All household memberstring——
hv108Education in single years. This variable is constructed from the educational level (HV106) and the grade at that level (string——
hv109Educational attainment recodes the education of the household member into the following categories: None, incomplete pristring——
hv110Whether the household member is still in school. All members aged equal to or older than the upper limit (usually 25 yeastring——
hv111Whether the mother of the household member is still alive. BASE: All children in the household aged less than 18.string——
hv112Line number in the household of the mother of the member. This variable is code 00 if the mother is not a member of the string——
hv113Whether the father of the household member is still alive. BASE: All children in the household aged less than 18.string——
hv114Line number in the household of the father of the member. This variable is code 00 if the father is not a member of the string——
hv115Marital status of the household memberstring——
hv116Whether the household member is currently, formerly or never married (or lived with a partner). Currently married includstring——
hv117Eligibility of the household member for the individual women's survey. This indicates whether the women is included in tstring——
hv118Eligibility of the household member for the individual men's surveystring——
hv120Eligibility of the child for the height/weight and hemoglobinstring——
hv121Household member attended school during current school year.string——
hv122Educational level attended during current school year, with the same standardized levels as explained for HV106.string——
hv123Grade of education at the level of education attended during current school year (see HV107).string——
hv124Education in single years during current school year (see explanation HV108).string——
hv125Household member attended school during previous school year. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questistring——
hv126Educational level attended during previous school year. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnairstring——
hv127Grade of education at the educational level during previous school year. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII string——
hv128Education in single years during- previous school year. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnairstring——
hv129School attendance status is coded as follows: 0 Never attended. Children with no education. 1 Entered schoolstring——
hv140Member has a birth certificate.string——
hv201Main source of drinking water for members of the household. Individual codes are country- specific, but the major categostring——
hv202Main source of water for household use other than for drinking. Individual codes are country-specific, but the major catstring——
hv201aWater not available for at least one full day in the past two weeksstring——
hv204Time taken to get to the water source for drinking water BASE: All respondents except those with drinking water either pstring——
hv205Type of toilet facility in the household. Individual codes are country-specific, but the major categories are standard. string——
hv206Electricity.string——
hv207A radio.string——
hv208A television.string——
hv209A refrigerator. Whether any member of the household has:string——
hv210A bicycle.string——
hv211A motorcycle.string——
hv212A car.string——
hv213Main material of the floor. Individual codes are country-specific, but the major categories are standard.string——
hv214Main material of the walls. Individual codes are country-specific, but the major categories are standard.string——
hv215Main material of the roof. Individual codes are country-specific, but the major categories are standard.string——
hv216Number of rooms used for sleeping in the household.string——
hv217Relationship structure in the household describes the household composition in the following categories: one adult, two string——
hv218Line number of head of household. This should always be 01, however there are some households in certain surveys in whicstring——
hv219Sex of head of household.string——
hv220Age of head of household.string——
hv221Whether the household has a telephone.string——
hv225Whether the household shares a toilet with other households. BASE: All households that have toilet facility (HV205 <> 31string——
hv226Type of cooking fuel.string——
hv227Household has at least one mosquito net.string——
hv228No children, all children or some children under 5 slept under a mosquito net last night. BASE: Households with childrenstring——
hv230aPlace where household members wash their handsstring——
hv230bPresence of water at hand washing place BASE (for HV230B – HV232Y): All households where the place where members most ofstring——
hv232Items present: Soap or detergentstring——
hv232bItems present: Ash, mud, sandstring——
hv232cItems present: Country Specificstring——
hv232dItems present: Country Specificstring——
hv232eItems present: Country Specificstring——
hv232yItems present: Nonestring——
hv234Test salt for Iodine (PPM). This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable is kept string——
hv234aResult of salt test for iodinestring——
hv235Location of source for water BASE: Households whose source of drinking water is not piped into their own or a neighbor’sstring——
hv236Person fetching water. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable is kept in thstring——
hv237Anything done to water to make safe to drink Usual water treatment (suite): BASE (HV237A-HV237Z): Treated water (HV237 =string——
hv237aBoilstring——
hv237bAdd bleach/chlorinestring——
hv237cStrain through a clothstring——
hv237dUse water filterstring——
hv237eSolar disinfectionstring——
hv237fLet it stand and settlestring——
hv237gCountry specificstring——
hv237hCountry specificstring——
hv237iCountry specificstring——
hv237jCountry specificstring——
hv237kCountry specificstring——
hv237xOtherstring——
hv237zWater usually treated by: don't knowstring——
hv238Number of households sharing toiletstring——
hv238aLocation of toilet facilitystring——
hv239Food cooked on stove or open fire. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII corestring——
hv240Household has a chimney, hood or neither. This question is no longer part of the DHS VIIstring——
hv241Food cooked in the house, in separate building, or outdoorsstring——
hv242Household has separate room used as kitchenstring——
hv243aHas a mobile telephonestring——
hv243bHas a watchstring——
hv243cHas an animal-drawn cartstring——
hv243dHas a boat with a motorstring——
hv243eHas a computerstring——
hv244Own land usable for agriculturestring——
hv245Hectares for agricultural landstring——
hv246Number of the following livestock, herds or animals household owns: BASE: For HV246A to HV246K is households that own listring——
hv246aCattlestring——
hv246bCows, bullsstring——
hv246cHorses, donkeys, mulesstring——
hv246dGoatsstring——
hv246eSheepstring——
hv246fChickens/poultrystring——
hv246gCountry specificstring——
hv246hCountry specificstring——
hv246iCountry specificstring——
hv246jCountry specificstring——
hv246kCountry specificstring——
hv247Any member of the household has a bank accountstring——
hv252Frequency any household member smokes inside the housestring——
hv253Dwelling sprayed against mosquitoes in past 12 months Dwelling sprayed against mosquitos by: BASE: For HV253A to HV253Z string——
hv253aDwelling sprayed by: government worker/programstring——
hv253bDwelling sprayed by: private companystring——
hv253cDwelling sprayed by: NGOstring——
hv253dDwelling sprayed by: Country Specificstring——
hv253eDwelling sprayed by: Country Specificstring——
hv253fDwelling sprayed by: Country Specificstring——
hv253gDwelling sprayed by: Country Specificstring——
hv253hDwelling sprayed by: Country Specificstring——
hv253xDwelling sprayed by: otherstring——
hv253zDwelling sprayed by: don't know Wealth Index Variablesstring——
hv270The wealth index is a composite measure of a household's cumulative living standard. The wealth index is calculated usinstring——
hv271Wealth index factor score (5 decimals)string——
hv270aWealth index for urban/rural. As a response to criticism that a single wealth index (as provided by HV270 and HV271) is string——
hv271aWealth index factor score for urban/rural (5 decimals)string——
hml1Number of mosquito nets household ownsstring——
hml1aNumber of mosquito nets with specific information. Ownership of up to 7 mosquito nets (0 through 7+) is recorded in HML1string——
hml2Number of children sleeping under a mosquito net the previous nightstring——
rech3All single occurrence country-specific variables relating to the household.string——
rech4Country-specific variables from the household schedule. Variable IDXH4 is always included as the first variable in this string——
ha0Index to household schedule.string——
ha1Women's age in years. In the DHS VII recode HA1 is computed as the CMC date of the biomarker questionnaire interview (HVstring——
ha2Respondent's weight (kilos-1d).string——
ha3Respondent's height (cms-1d).string——
ha4Height/Age Percentilestring——
ha5Height/Age Standard deviations.string——
ha6Height/Age Percent ref. Median.string——
ha11Weight/Height Std deviations (DHS).string——
ha12Weight/Height Percent ref. median (DHS).string——
ha12aWeight/Height Percent ref. median (Foggarty)string——
ha12bWeight/Height Percent ref. median (WHO).string——
ha13In DHS VII women’s result of measurement is a combination of the measurements of the respondent’s weight and height. Allstring——
ha21Fieldworker measurer codestring——
ha32Date of birth (CMC). Note that if the woman completed an individual interview than HA32 will be based on the month and ystring——
ha33Completeness of date of birth (HA32) information.string——
ha35Smoking in last 24 hours.string——
ha40Body mass index for respondent.string——
ha41Rohrer's index for respondent.string——
ha50Under age 18.string——
ha51Line number of parent/caretaker. BASE: Never married woman in the age range 15 - 17. Anemia testing:string——
ha52Whether the consent to draw a droplet of blood was granted after reading a consent statement to woman/parent/responsiblestring——
ha53Hemoglobin level in g/dl with 1 implied decimal.string——
ha54Currently pregnant.string——
ha55Result of Hemoglobin measuring.string——
ha56Hemoglobin level adjusted by altitude in g/dl with 1 implied decimal.string——
ha57Anemia level. Levels below 7.0 g/dl are considered as severe anemia, levels between 7. 0g/dl and 9.9g/dl are considered string——
ha58Agrees to referral. In case where the anemia level is severe, respondents are asked whether this information can be givestring——
ha60Marital status HIV testing: The actual outcome of the HIV test is not available in this data set. HIV results are not distring——
ha61Consent for HIV measurement is a combination of the responses to the consent statement read to the respondent and to thestring——
ha62Blood sample ID numberstring——
ha63Result of measuring (HIV) provides information on whether a blood sample was taken or the reason why a sample could not string——
ha64Consent for additional tests. This is a combination of the responses to the consent statement for additional tests to thstring——
ha65Result of woman individual interviewstring——
ha66Woman's highest educational level, with the same standardized levels as explained for HV106.string——
ha67Woman's highest year of education (see HV107) BASE: All women that have primary, secondary or higher level education (HAstring——
ha68Highest educational level (Country specific for preliminary and final reports)string——
ha69HIV weight (6 decimals)string——
ha70Code for fieldworker that took blood for HIV testingstring——
hc0Index to household schedulestring——
hc1Age in months, previously calculated as HV008 – HC32. In DHS VII, the calculation is based on the Century Day Codes for string——
hc1aChild’s age in days, calculated as HV807A – HC32A.string——
hc2Weight in kilograms (1 dec.)string——
hc3Height in centimeters (1 dec.)string——
hc4Height/Age Percentilestring——
hc5Height/Age Standard deviationsstring——
hc6Height/Age Percent of ref. medianstring——
hc7Weight/Age Percentilestring——
hc8Weight/Age Standard deviationsstring——
hc9Weight/Age Percent of ref. medianstring——
hc10Weight/Height Percentilestring——
hc11Weight/Height Standard deviationsstring——
hc12Weight/Height Percent of ref. medianstring——
hc13In DHS VII children’s result of measurement is a combination of the measurements of the child’s weight and height. All cstring——
hc15Height: lying or standingstring——
hc16Day of birth of childstring——
hc17Date measured (day)string——
hc18Date measured (month)string——
hc19Date measured (year)string——
hc20Century day code of measurement, calculated from HV807Y, HV807M and HV807D (see note on century day codes). This variablstring——
hc21Fieldworker measurer codestring——
hc27Sex of the childstring——
hc30Month of birth of childstring——
hc31Year of birth of childstring——
hc32Date of birth (CMC). Note that when a child is included in the birth history on his/her mother’s individual questionnairstring——
hc32aCentury day code of birth (see note on century month codes). Note that when a child is included in the birth history in string——
hc33Completeness of information for date of birth (HC32)string——
hc51Line number of parent/caretaker BASE: All children born before six month of interview date. Anemia testing: Base (HC52 –string——
hc52Read consent statementstring——
hc53Hemoglobin level (g/dl - 1 decimal)string——
hc55Result of measuring (Hemoglobin)string——
hc56Hemoglobin level adjusted by altitude in g/dl with 1 implied decimalstring——
hc57Anemia levels below 7.0 g/dl are considered as severe anemia, levels between 7.1g/dl and 9.9g/dl are considered as moderstring——
hc58Agrees to referral. In case where the anemia level is severe, respondents are asked whether this information can be givestring——
hc60Mother's line number from woman's questionnairestring——
hc61Mother's highest educational level, with the same standardized levels as explained for HV106.string——
hc62Mother's highest year of education (see HV107)string——
hc63Preceding birth intervalstring——
hc64Birth order numberstring——
hc68Highest educational level (Country specific for preliminary and final reports)string——
hc70Height for age standard deviation (according to WHO)string——
hc71Weight for age standard deviation (according to WHO)string——
hc72Weight for height standard deviations (according to WHO)string——
hb0Index to household schedulestring——
hb1Men's age in years. In the DHS VII recode HB1 is computed as the CMC date of the biomarker questionnaire interview (HV80string——
hb2Respondent's weight (kilos-1d)string——
hb3Respondent's height (cms-1d)string——
hb4Ht/A Percentile (respondent)string——
hb5Ht/A Standard deviations (respondent)string——
hb6Ht/A Percent ref. median (respondent)string——
hb11Wt/Ht Std deviations (respondent) DHSstring——
hb12Wt/Ht Percent ref. median (DHS)string——
hb12aWt/Ht Percent ref. median (Foggarty)string——
hb12bWt/Ht Percent ref. median (WHO)string——
hb13Result of height and weight measurement. In DHS VII the result of height and weight measurement is a combination of the string——
hb21Fieldworker measurer codestring——
hb32Date of birth (CMC). Note that if the man completed an individual interview then HB32 will be based on the month and yeastring——
hb33Completeness of date of birth (HB32) informationstring——
hb35Smoking in last 24 hoursstring——
hb40Body mass index for respondentstring——
hb41Rohrer's index for respondentstring——
hb50Under age 18string——
hb51Line no. of parent/caretaker BASE: Never married men in the age range 15-17. Anemia testing:string——
hb52The consent for hemoglobin measurement is a combination of the responses to the consent statement read to the respondentstring——
hb53Hemoglobin level (g/dl - 1 decimal)string——
hb55Result of measuring (Hemoglobin)string——
hb56Hemoglobin level adjusted by altitude (g/dl - 1 decimal)string——
hb57Anemia level. Levels below 7.0 g/dl are considered as severe anemia, levels between 7.0 g/dl and 9.9 g/dl are consideredstring——
hb58Agrees to referral. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable is kept in the Dstring——
hb60Marital status HIV testing:string——
hb61Consent for HIV measurement. This is a combination of the responses to the consent statement read to the respondent and string——
hb62Blood sample ID numberstring——
hb63Result of measuring (HIV)string——
hb64Consent for additional tests. This is a combination of the responses to the consent statement read to the respondent andstring——
hb65Result of man individual interviewstring——
hb66Man's highest educational level, with the same standardized levels as explained for HV106.string——
hb67Man's highest year of education (see HV107) BASE: All men that attended primary, secondary or higher education (HB66 is string——
hb68Highest educational level (Country specific for preliminary and final report)string——
hb69HIV weight (6 decimals)string——
hb70Code for fieldworker that took blood for HIV testingstring——
hml3Net observed or not.string——
hml4Months ago household obtained the mosquito net.string——
hml5Was net treated with insecticide when bought. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but thestring——
hml6Mosquito net treated with insecticide. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variabstring——
hml7Brand or type of mosquito net.string——
hml8Mosquito net ever soaked or dipped in a liquid to kill or repel mosquitos.string——
hml9Months ago mosquito net was last soaked or dipped in a liquid to kill or repel mosquitos.string——
hml10The mosquito net is an Insecticide-treated net (ITN). An ITN net is (1) a factory-treated net that does not require any string——
hml11Number of persons who slept under this mosquito net the night before the survey. The maximum number of persons sleeping string——
hml21Someone slept under this mosquito net last night Line number of person that slept under this mosquito net last night:string——
hml22Obtained net from campaign, antenatal or immunization visitstring——
hml23Place where net was obtained Base: Mosquito net not obtained from campaign, antenatal or immunization visit (HML22 = 0).string——
hml12Type of bednet(s) person slept under last night, i.e. did not sleep under a net, slept only under an ITN treated net, slstring——
hml13Net number for first net person slept under.string——
hml14Net number for second net person slept under.string——
hml15Net number for third net person slept under.string——
hml16Corrected age from individual questionnaire. For adult respondents with a completed woman or man questionnaire, this infstring——
hml16aCorrected age in months (for children). See HML16 BASE: Children under age 6 based on HV105string——
hml17Flag for corrected age from individual questionnaire (HML16).string——
hml18Pregnancy status from individual questionnaire. For complete woman’s interviews this is taken from V213. For incomplete string——
hml19Person slept under an ever treated net. An ever treated net included HML5 = 1 (treatment of mosquito net when bought) orstring——
hml20Person slept under an LLIN net. LLIN’s are identified in HML7 (Brand of mosquito net) and are generally listed under thestring——
hml30Line number of parent/caretaker (for malaria testing)string——
hml31Read consent statement for malariastring——
hml32Final result of malaria from blood smear teststring——
hml32aPresence of species: falciparam (Pf)string——
hml32bPresence of species: malari (Pm)string——
hml32cPresence of species: ovale (Po)string——
hml32dPresence of species: vwax (Pv)string——
hml32ePresence of species: Country Specificstring——
hml32fPresence of species: Country Specificstring——
hml32gPresence of species: Country Specificstring——
hml33Result of malaria measurementstring——
hml34Bar code for blood smear samplestring——
hml35Result of malaria rapid teststring——
chl1Worked for someone outside householdstring——
chl2Hours worked for someone outside householdstring——
chl3Fetched wood or waterstring——
chl4Hours spent fetching wood or waterstring——
chl5Worked for a family memberstring——
chl6Hours spent working for family memberstring——
chl7Did domestic household workstring——
chl8Hours spent doing domestic household workstring——
v002Household number is the number identifying the household in which the respondent was interviewed, within the sample poinstring——
v003Respondent's line number in the household schedule.string——
v004Ultimate area unit is a number assigned to each sample point to identify the ultimate area units used in the collection string——
v006Month of the individual interviewstring——
v008Century month code of date of interview, calculated from V007 and V008 (see note on century month codes)string——
v008aCentury day code of date of interview, calculated from V007, V008 and V016 (see note on century day codes)string——
v009Month of birth of respondent (see note on imputed dates)string——
v010Year of birth of respondent (see note on imputed dates)string——
v011Century month code of date of birth of the respondent (see note on century month codes and on imputed dates).string——
v013Current age in 5-year groups is produced by grouping V012.string——
v014Completeness of information for the date of birth of the respondent (see note on imputedstring——
v015Result of individual interview. Code 1 represents a completed interview. For all other cases,string——
v016Day of the individual interviewstring——
v017Century month code for the first month of the calendar. This is constant for all cases and isstring——
v018Row of calendar representing the month of interview. The calendar is numbered from 1 tostring——
v019Records the length of the calendar to use for this case. V019 is equal to 80-V018+1. Thisstring——
v019aNumber of calendar columns.string——
v020The ever-married sample indicator is a constant for all cases in the data file. For all womanstring——
v021Primary sampling unit is a number assigned to sample points to identify the primarystring——
v022Sample strata for sampling errors defines the pairings or groupings of primary sampling unitsstring——
v023The stratification used in the sample design defines the basic geographic units within whichstring——
v024De facto region of residence is a copy of V101, added to this section to allow for analysis of completion rates by regiostring——
v026De facto place of residence is the type of place in which the respondent was interviewed. This is a copy of V134, added string——
v027Number of visits for the interview is a copy of V804.string——
v028Interviewer identification code is a copy of V805. Codes are country-specific. This variable now occupies 5 digits.string——
v029Data entry keyer code is a copy of V806 and codes are country-specific. This variable now occupies 3 digits.string——
v030Field supervisor's codes are country-specific. This variable now occupies 5 digits.string——
v031Field editor's codes are country-specific. This variable now occupies 5 digits.string——
v032Office editor's codes are country-specific. This variable now occupies 3 digits.string——
v034Line number of husband as recorded in the household schedule. This variable can be used, in conjunction with the clusterstring——
v040Cluster altitude in meters used to adjust the anemia levelstring——
v042Household selection for hemoglobinstring——
v044Selection for domestic violence module. This variable is set to not applicable in case there is no domestic violence modstring——
v045aLanguage of the questionnaire codes are country-specificstring——
v045bLanguage of the interview codes are country-specificstring——
v045cNative language of the respondent codes are country specificstring——
v046Translator used in the interviewstring——
v105aProvince, region or state codes of residence before respondent moved to current place of residence are country specific.string——
v101De facto region of residence. Region in which the respondent was interviewed. Codes are country-specific. For de jure restring——
v102De facto type of place of residence. Type of place of residence where the respondent was interviewed as either urban or string——
v103Childhood place of residence is classified into city, town and countryside as reported by the respondent. In some countrstring——
v104Number of years the respondent has lived in the village, town, or city where she was interviewed. Visitors to the communstring——
v105Type of place of previous residence is coded as for V103. In some countries, additional codes are used for capital/majorstring——
v107Highest year of education gives the years of education completed at the level given in V106. BASE: All respondents excepstring——
v113Main source of drinking water for members of the household. Individual codes are country- specific, but the major categostring——
v115Time taken to get to the water source for drinking waterstring——
v116Type of toilet facility in the household. Individual codes are country-specific, but the major categories are standard. string——
v119Electricitystring——
v120A radiostring——
v121A televisionstring——
v122A refrigerator Whether any member of the household has:string——
v123A bicyclestring——
v124A motorcycle/scooterstring——
v125A car/truckstring——
v127Main material of the floor. Individual codes are country-specific, but the major categories are standard.string——
v128Main material of the walls. Individual codes are country-specific, but the major categories are standard.string——
v129Main material of the roof. Individual codes are country-specific, but the major categories are standard.string——
v130Religion. Both the question and the codes are country-specific.string——
v131Ethnicity. Both the question and the codes are country-specific.string——
v134De facto place of residence is the type of place in which the respondent was interviewed. Urban areas are classified intstring——
v135Whether the respondent is a usual resident of the household or is just visiting the household. Responses of "Visitor" tostring——
v136Total number of household members is the number of usual residents plus the number of visitors who slept in the house thstring——
v137Number of children resident in the household and aged 5 and under. Visiting children are not included.string——
v138Number of eligible women in the household. Eligible women are usually defined to be women aged 15-49 who slept in the hostring——
v139De jure region of usual residence. For de facto region of residence, see V101.string——
v140De jure type of place of usual residence. For de facto type of place of residence, see V102.string——
v141De jure place of residence. In most countries, no differentiation is made between large citiesstring——
v149Educational achievement recodes the education of the respondent into the followingstring——
v150Relationship to the head of the household. These data are taken from the householdstring——
v151Sex of the head of the householdstring——
v152Age of the head of the householdstring——
v153Whether the household has a telephone.string——
v155Literacy indicates whether a respondent who attended primary or secondary schooling canstring——
v156Ever participated in a literacy program or any other program that involves learning to readstring——
v157Reading a newspaper or magazine at least once a week. Respondents who cannot read at all or who are blind/visually impaistring——
v158Listening to the radio at least once a weekstring——
v159Watching television at least once a weekstring——
v160Toilet facilities shared with other households BASE: All households that have toilet facility (HV205 <> 31)string——
v161Type of cooking fuelstring——
v166Results of salt iodine test). This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable is kepstring——
v167Number of trips away from home for one or more nights in last 12 monthsstring——
v168Away for more than one month at a time in last 12 months BASE: Respondents who stayed away from home for more than one nstring——
v169aRespondent owns a mobile telephonestring——
v169bRespondents uses her mobile telephone for financial transactions BASE: Respondents owning a mobile telephone (V169A = 1)string——
v170Respondent has an account in a bank or other financial institution that she usesstring——
v171aUse of internet in the last 12 monthsstring——
v171bFrequency of using internet in the last month Wealth indexstring——
v191Wealth index factor score (5 decimals)string——
v190aWealth index for urban/rural. For a brief explanation of the Wealth index for urban/rural see HV270Astring——
v191aWealth index factor score for urban/rural (5 decimals)string——
ml101Type of mosquito net(s) the respondent slept under last night coded as follows: 0 No net 1 Only treated netsstring——
b0Twin code gives an order number for each child of a multiple birth. Code 0 indicates a single birth, code 1-upwards givestring——
b1Month of birth of child (see note on imputed dates).string——
b2Year of birth of child (see note on imputed dates). This variable now occupies 4 digits.string——
b3Century month code for the date of birth of the child (see note on century month codes).string——
b4Sex of childstring——
b6Age at death of the child as reported in the questionnaire. The first digit of the age at death gives the units in whichstring——
b8Current age of the child in single years for all living children. In the DHS VII recode, B8 is based on the CDC of day ostring——
b9The person the child usually lives with. The Respondent is coded 0, father coded 1, other relatives coded 2, other peoplstring——
b10Completeness of information for the date of birth of the child (see note on imputed dates). Codes are different from thestring——
b11Preceding birth interval is calculated as the difference in months between the current birth and the previous birth, coustring——
b12Succeeding birth interval is calculated as the difference in months between the current birth and the following birth, cstring——
b13Flag for age at death is coded as follows: 0 No flag 1 Age at death plus the date of birth would place the dstring——
b15Whether there were any other live births in the interval between the birth and the previously reported birth. Note: Varistring——
b16Child's line number in household BASE: Living children (B5 = 1).string——
b17Day of birth of child. When the respondent could not provide the day of birth of the child then it is imputed.string——
b18Century day code of birth of child, calculated from B2, B3 and B17 (see note on century day codes)string——
b19Current age of child in months (months since birth for dead children), calculated as the integer of (V008A-B18) / 30.437string——
b20Duration of pregnancy in months. This information is collected to fill the duration of a pregnancy of live births in a cstring——
v202Total number of sons living at homestring——
v203Total number of daughters living at homestring——
v204Total number of sons living away from homestring——
v205Total number of daughters living away from homestring——
v206Total number of sons who have diedstring——
v207Total number of daughters who have died V201 is the sum of variables V202 to V207.string——
v208Total number of births in the last five years is defined as all births in the months 0 to 59 prior to the month of interstring——
v209Total number of births in the past year is defined as all births in the months 0 to 12 (not 0 to 11) prior to the month string——
v210Total number of births in the month of interviewstring——
v211Century month code of the date of first birth is the same as B3(V224). BASE: All respondents with one or more births (V2string——
v212Age of the respondent at first birth is calculated from the CMC of the date of first birth and the CMC of the date of bistring——
v214Imputed duration of the current pregnancy. In the imputation process a date of conception of the current pregnancy is castring——
v215Time since last menstrual period as reported by the respondent. The first digit gives the units in which the response wastring——
v216Whether the respondent menstruated in the last six weeks is calculated from V215.string——
v217Knowledge of the ovulatory cycle indicates when during her monthly cycle the respondent thinks a woman has the greatest string——
v218Total number of living children is the sum of variables V202 to V205.string——
v219Total number of living children including current pregnancy is calculated from V218 by adding 1 if the respondent is prestring——
v220Total number of living children including current pregnancy is a grouping of the previous variable, truncating the numbestring——
v221Interval between the first marriage and first birth in months. If the first birth was prior to the first marriage then tstring——
v222Interval between the last birth and the date of the interview in months. BASE: Respondents who have had one or more birtstring——
v223Completeness of information relating to the date of conception of the current pregnancy. This variable indicates whetherstring——
v224Number of entries in the birth history (REC21). This variable is also the index to the first birth in the birth history.string——
v225At the time the respondent became pregnant with the current pregnancy, whether the current pregnancy was wanted then, lastring——
v226Computed time since the last menstrual period. This is computed from the response for V215, with durations exceeding thestring——
v228Whether the respondent ever had a pregnancy that terminated in a miscarriage, abortion, or still birth, i.e., did not restring——
v229Month of the last pregnancy termination.string——
v230Year of the last pregnancy termination. The date of last termination is taken from a single question in the body of the string——
v231Century month code of the last pregnancy termination. The CMC date of termination is calculated from the preceding queststring——
v232Date flag for the last terminated pregnancy.string——
v233Months pregnant when the pregnancy terminated. BASE: Respondents who have had one or more terminated pregnancies since tstring——
v234Whether the respondent had other pregnancy terminations before the last one.string——
v235Birth history index for last child born prior to the start of the calendar. Index is zero if no child was born before thstring——
v237Whether there were any other live births in the interval between the last birth and the date of interview. See B15 for mstring——
v238Total number of births in the last three years is defined as all births in the months 0 to 35 prior to the month of intestring——
v239Whether or not, the respondent had pregnancies that miscarried, aborted or ended in still birth before calendar beginninstring——
v240Month of last termination prior to calendarstring——
v241Year of last termination prior to calendarstring——
v242CMC termination ended prior to calendarstring——
v243Completeness of information for the last termination date prior to calendarstring——
v244Believing women can get pregnant after birth and before menstrual period returnsstring——
v301Knowledge of any method is classified into modern, traditional and folkloric methods as follows: Modern methods are Pillstring——
v302Ever use of a modern, traditional or folkloric method is created in the same way as V301. This question is no longer parstring——
v302aEver used anything or tried to delay or avoid getting pregnant. This variable was added to replace variable V302, which string——
v304aWhether the method is modern, traditional or folkloric.string——
v304Knowledge of the method. If questions relating to the method were not asked in a particular country then code 8 "Not askstring——
v305Whether the respondent has ever used the contraceptive method. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core queststring——
v307Method currently used. This is a multiple occurrence variable that gives all the methods used by the respondent. BASE: Rstring——
v310Number of living children at the time the respondent first used a contraceptive method. This question is no longer part string——
v311Number of living children at the time of first use is a grouped form of V310, with 4 or more truncated to 4 and respondestring——
v313Type of contraceptive method categorizes the current contraceptive method as either a modern method, a traditional methostring——
v315Month started using a contraceptive method by the respondent or her current partner (see note on imputed dates).string——
v316Year started using a contraceptive method by the respondent or her current partner (see note on imputed dates). This varstring——
v317Century month code for the date started using a contraceptive method by (see note on century month codes).string——
v318Completeness of information for the date when respondents started to use the contraceptive method they are currently usistring——
v319Years since sterilization in 2-year groups, truncated at 10 years.string——
v320Age at sterilization in 5-year groups <25, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49.string——
v321Marital duration at sterilization in 5-year groups with single women and those sterilized before marriage coded 0.string——
v322Parity at sterilization, truncated at 5+ children.string——
v323Brand of pill used.string——
v323aBrand of condom usedstring——
v325aCost of current method. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire,string——
v326The last source visited to obtain the current modern contraceptive method. Codes arestring——
v327The last source visited for users of modern methods in standard coding groups constructedstring——
v337Months of use of the current contraceptive method.string——
v359Last method discontinued in the last five years.string——
v360Reason for the discontinuation of the last method discontinued in the last five years.string——
v361Pattern of contraceptive use provides information on whether the respondent is currentlystring——
v362Intention to use a contraceptive method in the future is based on two questions, and classifies those intending to use astring——
v363Preferred future method for respondents intending to use a method in the future. This question is no longer part of the string——
v364Contraceptive use and intention shows current users of modern methods, current users of traditional methods, non-users wstring——
v367Whether the last child born in the last three/five years was wanted at that time, later or not at all. BASE: Women who gstring——
v372Shown pill package. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable is kept in the Dstring——
v372aShown condom package. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable is kept in thestring——
v375aReason the respondent is not using a method of contraception to avoid pregnancy. This question is no longer part of the string——
v376Reason the respondent does not intend to use a method of contraception in the future. This question is no longer part ofstring——
v376aWhether the respondent would use a method in the future if she was married. This question is no longer part of the DHS Vstring——
v379Source of any method of contraception is formed from a combination of responses. For current users of modern methods, exstring——
v380Source of any method of contraception coded in standard coding categories is created from V379. Whether the respondent hstring——
v384aHeard about FP on the radio in the last few monthsstring——
v384bHeard about FP on the TV in the last few monthsstring——
v384cHeard about FP from a newspaper or magazine in the last few monthsstring——
v384dHeard about FP from a voice or text message on a mobile phone in the last few months Family Planning Related Visitsstring——
v393Whether the respondent was visited by a fieldworker in the twelve months preceding the interview.string——
v393aWhether fieldworker talked about family planning BASE: Women visited by a fieldworker in the preceding 12 months (V393 =string——
v394Whether the respondent visited a health facility for any reason in the twelve months preceding the interview.string——
v395Whether any of the staff at the health facility talked to the respondent about family planning. BASE: Women who visited string——
m1The number of tetanus toxicoid injections given during the last pregnancy to avoid convulsions after birth. This variablstring——
m1aTetanus injections before pregnancy. BASE: Women who received no or one tetanus toxicoid injection, or do not know the nstring——
m1bMonth last tetanus injection before pregnancy. Women who received a tetanus toxicoid injection before the last birth werstring——
m1cYear last tetanus injection before pregnancy. Women who received a tetanus toxicoid injection before the last birth werestring——
m1dYears ago received last tetanus injection before last pregnancy. BASE: Women who received a tetanus toxicoid injection bstring——
m1eLast tetanus injection before last pregnancy (CMC). BASE: Women who received a tetanus toxicoid injection before the lasstring——
m2aDoctor.string——
m2bCountry-specific health professional.string——
m2cCountry-specific health professional.string——
m2dCountry-specific health professional.string——
m2eCountry-specific health professional.string——
m2fCountry-specific health professional.string——
m2gTraditional birth attendantstring——
m2hCountry-specific other personstring——
m2iCountry-specific other personstring——
m2jCountry-specific other personstring——
m2kOther responsesstring——
m2lCountry-specific otherstring——
m2mCountry-specific otherstring——
m2nNo one Delivery carestring——
m4The duration of breastfeeding of the child in months. Prior to DHS VI, the maximum period allowed during the data editinstring——
m5The calculated months of breastfeeding gives the duration of breastfeeding as in M4, but with the duration calculated ifstring——
m6The duration of postpartum amenorrhea after the birth of the child in months. The maximum period allowed during the datastring——
m7The calculated months of postpartum amenorrhea give the duration of amenorrhea as in M6, but with the duration calculatestring——
m8The duration of postpartum abstinence after the birth of the child in months. The maximum period allowed is calculated istring——
m9The calculated months of postpartum abstinence give the duration of abstinence as in M8, but with the duration calculatestring——
m10Whether the child was wanted at the time of pregnancy, whether the child was wanted, but later, or whether the child wasstring——
m11For women who wanted the child later, how much longer the respondent would have preferred to wait. The first digit givesstring——
m13Timing of first antenatal visit for the pregnancy is given in months from the start of the pregnancy. BASE: Women who hastring——
m14Number of antenatal visits during the pregnancy. Women who did not see anyone for antenatal care during the pregnancy arstring——
m15Place of delivery of the child. Coding categories are standard and are constructed with a major category for the first dstring——
m17Whether child was born by caesarian sectionstring——
m17aTiming on decision for caesarean section BASE: Women who had a caesarian section (M17 = 1).string——
m18Size of child as reported subjectively by the respondentstring——
m19Weight of child at birth given in kilograms with three implied decimal places (or grams with no decimal places). Childrestring——
m19aWhether the weight at birth (variable M19) was recorded from a health card (code 1) or from the mother’s recall (code 2)string——
m27Flag variable for breastfeeding, indicating types of problems found in editing the duration of breastfeeding. Since DHS string——
m28Flag variable for postpartum amenorrhea, indicating types of problems found in editing the duration of postpartum amenorstring——
m29Flag variable for postpartum abstinence, indicating types of problems found in editing the duration of postpartum abstinstring——
m34Time after the birth at which the respondent first breastfed the child. The first digit gives the units in which the resstring——
m35Number of times the child was breastfed during the previous night. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core qstring——
m36Number of times the child was breastfed during the daylight hours the previous day. This question is no longer part of tstring——
m38Whether the child drank anything from a bottle with a nipple during the previous day and night. BASE: Living children (Bstring——
m39The number of times the children received anything to eat, aside from breast milk,string——
m39aThe child ate any solid, semi-solid or soft foods yesterdaystring——
m42aDuring pregnancy – weighed. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII corestring——
m42bDuring pregnancy - height measured. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII corestring——
m42cDuring pregnancy - blood pressure takenstring——
m42dDuring pregnancy - urine sample takenstring——
m42eDuring pregnancy - blood sample takenstring——
m43Told about pregnancy complications at the time of last antenatal visitstring——
m44Told where to go for pregnancy complicationsstring——
m45During pregnancy, given or bought iron tablets/syrupstring——
m46Days tablets or syrup takenstring——
m47During pregnancy, had difficulty with daylight visionstring——
m48During pregnancy, had difficulty with night blindness Medication taken to prevent from Malaria BASE: In the DHS VII corestring——
m49aDuring pregnancy - took SP/Fansidar for Malariastring——
m49bDuring pregnancy - took Chloroquine for Malariastring——
m49cDuring pregnancy - took country specific drug for Malariastring——
m49dDuring pregnancy - took country specific drug for Malariastring——
m49eDuring pregnancy - took country specific drug for Malariastring——
m49fDuring pregnancy - took country specific drug for Malariastring——
m49gDuring pregnancy - took country specific drug for Malariastring——
m49xDuring pregnancy - took other drug for Malariastring——
m49yDuring pregnancy took: no drug for malariastring——
m49zDuring pregnancy - took don’t know for Malariastring——
m54Received Vitamin A dose in first 2 months after delivery. This question is no longer part ofstring——
m55Given child anything other than breast milkstring——
m55aFirst 3 days, given milk other than breast milkstring——
m55bFirst 3 days, given plain waterstring——
m55cFirst 3 days, given sugar/glucose waterstring——
m55dFirst 3 days, given gripe waterstring——
m55eFirst 3 days, given sugar/salt/water solutionstring——
m55fFirst 3 days, given fruit juicestring——
m55gFirst 3 days, given infant formulastring——
m55hFirst 3 days, given tea/infusionsstring——
m55iFirst 3 days, given honeystring——
m55jFirst 3 days, given country specificstring——
m55kFirst 3 days, given country specificstring——
m55lFirst 3 days, given country specificstring——
m55mFirst 3 days, given country specificstring——
m55nFirst 3 days, given country specificstring——
m55oFirst 3 days, given country specificstring——
m55xFirst 3 days, given otherstring——
m55zFirst 3 days, given nothing Place for antenatal care Women who received antenatal care were asked about the place where string——
m57aYour homestring——
m57bOther homestring——
m57cCountry specific homestring——
m57dCountry specific homestring——
m57eGovernment hospitalstring——
m57fCountry specific publicstring——
m57gCountry specific publicstring——
m57hCountry specific publicstring——
m57iCountry specific publicstring——
m57jCountry specific publicstring——
m57kCountry specific publicstring——
m57lCountry specific publicstring——
m57mPrivate hospital/clinicstring——
m57nCountry specific private medicalstring——
m57oCountry specific private medicalstring——
m57pCountry specific private medicalstring——
m57qCountry specific private medicalstring——
m57rCountry specific private medicalstring——
m57sCountry specific otherstring——
m57tCountry specific otherstring——
m57uCountry specific otherstring——
m57vCountry specific otherstring——
m57xOtherstring——
m60Drugs for intestinal parasites BASE: Last births in the three/five years before the survey (MIDX = 1).string——
m61Time spent at place of delivery BASE: Last births in the three/five years before the survey delivered in a health facilistring——
m62Anyone checked respondent health before dischargestring——
m63How long before discharging respondent health check took place. This variable existed in DHS V recode and is kept in DHSstring——
m64Who checked respondent health before discharge from health facility? This variable existed in DHS V recode and is kept istring——
m65aCost too muchstring——
m65bFacility not openstring——
m65cToo far/no transportstring——
m65dDon't trust facility/poor servicestring——
m65eNo female providerstring——
m65fHusband/family didn't allowstring——
m65gNot necessarystring——
m65hNot customarystring——
m65iCountry specificstring——
m65jCountry specificstring——
m65kCountry specificstring——
m65lCountry specificstring——
m65xOther. Postpartum check-up of mother after discharge or delivery at home BASE: Last births in the three/five years beforstring——
m66After discharge/delivery at home anyone checked respondent healthstring——
m67How long after discharge/delivery at home respondent health check took place. This variable existed in DHS V recode and string——
m68Who checked respondent health after discharge/delivery at home took place. This variable existed in DHS V recode and is string——
m69Where respondent check after discharge/delivery at home took place. This variable existed in DHS V recode and is kept instring——
m70Baby postnatal check within 2 monthsstring——
m71How long after delivery postnatal check took place BASE: Received postnatal check within 2 months (M70 = 1).string——
m72Who performed postnatal checkup. This variable is grouped into 3 major categories: 10 Medical personnel 20 Ostring——
m73Where was the baby checked for the first time. This variable is grouped into 4 major categories: 10 Home 20 string——
m74Whether the child’s health was checked before dischargestring——
m75When the child’s health was checked before discharge BASE: children checked before discharge from health facility (M74 =string——
m76Who checked child health before discharge BASE: children checked before discharge from health facility (M74 = 1).string——
m77Whether the child was put on mother’s chest and bare skin after birth Health provider’s service during the first 2 days string——
m78aExamined cordstring——
m78bMeasured temperaturestring——
m78cCounselled on newborn dangersstring——
m78dCounselled on breastfeedingstring——
m78eObserved breastfeedingstring——
m78fCountry specificstring——
m78gCountry specificstring——
m78hCountry specificstring——
m78iCountry specificstring——
m78jCountry specificstring——
v401Whether the last child born in the last three/five years was born by caesarean section. BASE: Respondents who have had ostring——
v404Whether the respondent is currently breastfeeding a child. This is based on the entries in the maternity history for chistring——
v405Whether the respondent is currently postpartum amenorrheic. This variable is created from the maternity history by checkstring——
v406Whether the respondent is currently postpartum abstaining. This variable is created from the maternity history by checkistring——
v407Number of times the last child was breastfed during the previous night. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII cstring——
v408Number of times the last child was breastfed during the daylight hours the previous day. This question is no longer partstring——
v409Plain waterstring——
v409aSugar waterstring——
v410Juicestring——
v410aTea or coffeestring——
v411Powdered, tinned milk or fresh animal milkstring——
v411aInfant formulastring——
v412Fresh milkstring——
v412aAny fortified baby foodstring——
v412bOther porridge/gruelstring——
v412cClear brothstring——
v413Other liquidstring——
v414eBread, rice, noodles, porridge, or other foods made from grains.string——
v414fWhite potatoes, white yams, manioc, cassava or other food made from rootsstring——
v414gEggsstring——
v414hAny meat (beef, pork, lamb, goat, chicken or duck)string——
v414iPumpkin, carrots, squash or sweet potatoes (yellow or orange inside)string——
v414jAny dark green leafy vegetablesstring——
v414kRipe mangoes, papayas, other vitamin A fruitsstring——
v414lAny other fruits or vegetablesstring——
v414mLiver, heart, other organ meatsstring——
v414nFresh or dried fish or shellfishstring——
v414oFood made from beans, peas, lentils, nutsstring——
v414pCheese or other food made with milkstring——
v414qOil, fats, butter, products made of themstring——
v414rChocolates, sweets, candies, pastries, etc.string——
v414sOther solid-semisolid foodstring——
v414tCountry specific foodsstring——
v414uCountry specific foodsstring——
v414vYogurtstring——
v414wCountry specific foodsstring——
v415Whether the child drank anything from a bottle with a nipple the previous day and night. BASE: Respondents whose last chstring——
v416Whether the respondent has heard of the special-named oral rehydration product for treating children with diarrhea. Thisstring——
v417Number of entries in the pregnancy and postnatal care historystring——
v418Number of entries in the immunization historystring——
v418aNumber of entries in the child health historystring——
v419Number of entries in the height and weight table BASE: All respondents.string——
v420Code assigned to the person measuring the children for the height and weight section. Codes are country-specific. BASE: string——
v421Code assigned to the assistant measurer. Codes are country-specific. This question is nostring——
v426Time after the birth at which the respondent first breastfed the last child. The first digit givesstring——
v437Weight of the respondent in kilograms. There is one implied decimal place in the weightstring——
v438Height of the respondent in centimeters. There is one implied decimal place in the heightstring——
v439Height for Age percentile.string——
v440Height for Age standard deviations from the reference median.string——
v441Height for Age percent of reference median.string——
v442Weight for Height percent of reference median based on DHS reference standard.string——
v443Weight for Height percent of reference median based on Metropolitan Life or Foggartystring——
v444Weight for Height percent of reference median based on WHO reference standard.string——
v444aWeight for Height standard deviations from the reference median based on the DHS reference standard.string——
v445Body mass index (BMI), or Quetelet's index, for the respondent is defined as her weight in kilograms divided by the squastring——
v446Rohrer's index for the respondent is defined as her weight in kilograms divided by her height in meters cubed (W/H3). Thstring——
v447Result of height and weight measurement of the respondent. Fully measured women are coded 0, and reasons for not measuristring——
v447aWomen's age in years from household report BASE: Respondents living in households selected for height and weight measurestring——
v452aUnder age 18 from household questionnaire. BASE: Respondents living in households selected for height and weight measurestring——
v452bRespondents aged 15-17 who were never in a union have their caretaker line number (parent/responsible adult) collected astring——
v452cRead consent statement. A consent statement is read to the respondent for agreement before taking a sample of blood.string——
v453Hemoglobin level (g/dl - 1 decimal)string——
v454Currently pregnant (household report)string——
v455Result of measuring (Hemoglobin)string——
v456Hemoglobin level adjusted by altitude (g/dl - 1 decimal)string——
v457Anemia levelstring——
v458Agrees to referral. In case where the anemia level is severe, respondents are asked whetherstring——
v459Have bednet for sleeping (household report)string——
v460Children under 5 slept under bednet last night (HH report HV228)string——
v461Respondent slept under bednetstring——
v462The respondent washed hands before preparing last meal. This questions is no longer part ofstring——
v463aCigarettesstring——
v463bPipe full of tobaccostring——
v463cChewing tobaccostring——
v463dSnuff by nosestring——
v463eKreteksstring——
v463fCigars, cheroots or cigarillosstring——
v463gWater pipestring——
v463hSnuff by mouthstring——
v463iBetel quid with tobaccostring——
v463jCountry specificstring——
v463kCountry specificstring——
v463lCountry specificstring——
v463xSmokes otherstring——
v463zDoes not smokestring——
v464Number of cigarettes in last 24 hoursstring——
v465Disposal of youngest child's stools when not using toilet.string——
v466When child is seriously ill, the respondent can decide by herself whether or not the childstring——
v467aKnowing where to gostring——
v467bGetting permission to gostring——
v467cGetting money needed for treatmentstring——
v467dDistance to the health facilitystring——
v467eHaving to take transportstring——
v467fNot wanting to go alonestring——
v467gConcern that there may not be a female health providerstring——
v467hConcern that there may not be a providerstring——
v467iConcern that there may not be drugs availablestring——
v467jCountry specificstring——
v467kCountry specificstring——
v467lCountry specificstring——
v467mCountry specificstring——
v468Column used for variables related only to last births. In the standard, some questions arestring——
v469eTimes gave child powdered/tinned/fresh milkstring——
v469fTimes gave child infant formulastring——
v469xTimes gave child yogurtstring——
v471aMother had tinned, powdered or fresh milkstring——
v471bMother had tea or coffeestring——
v471cMother had any other liquidstring——
v471dMother had Country Specific liquidstring——
v471eMother had Country Specific liquidstring——
v471fMother had Country Specific liquidstring——
v471gMother had Country Specific liquidstring——
v472aMother had Country Specific foodsstring——
v472bMother had Country Specific foodsstring——
v472cMother had Country Specific foodsstring——
v472dMother had Country Specific foodsstring——
v472eMother had bread, noodles, other made from grainsstring——
v472fMother had potatoes, cassava, or other tubersstring——
v472gMother had eggsstring——
v472hMother had meat (beef, pork, lamb, chicken, etc)string——
v472iMother had pumpink, carrots, squash (yellow or orange inside)string——
v472jMother had any dark green leafy vegetablesstring——
v472kMother had mangoes, papayas, other vitamin A fruitsstring——
v472lMother had any other fuitsstring——
v472mMother had liver, heart, other organsstring——
v472nMother had fish or shellfishstring——
v472oMother had food made from beans, peas, lentis, nutsstring——
v472pMother had cheese, yogurt , other milk productsstring——
v472qMother had oil, fats, butter, products made of themstring——
v472rMother had chocolates, sweets, candies, pastries, etcstring——
v472sMother had other solid-semisolid foodstring——
v472tMother had Country Specific foodsstring——
v472uMother had Country Specific foodsstring——
v473aRead consent statement (HIV)string——
v473bResult of measuring (HIV)string——
v474Heard of Tuberculosis or TBstring——
v474aAir when coughing or sneezingstring——
v474bSharing utensilsstring——
v474cTouching a person with TBstring——
v474dTuberculosis spread through foodstring——
v474eSexual contactstring——
v474fMosquito bitesstring——
v474gCountry specificstring——
v474hCountry specificstring——
v474iCountry specificstring——
v474jCountry specificstring——
v474xOtherstring——
v474zDon't knowstring——
v475Can tuberculosis be curedstring——
v476Keep secret when family member gets TBstring——
v477Number of injections in last 12 monthsstring——
v478Injections administered by a health workerstring——
v479Source for injection by health worker. This question is no longer part of DHS VII corestring——
v480The time the respondent got an injection, the health worker took the syringe and needlestring——
v481Covered by health insurancestring——
v481aMutual/community organizationstring——
v481bProvided by employerstring——
v481cSocial securitystring——
v481dPrivate/commercial purchasedstring——
v481eCountry specificstring——
v481fCountry specificstring——
v481gCountry specificstring——
v481hCountry specificstring——
v481xOther Child arrangements in case unable to care for children. The questions pertaining to V482A, V482B and V482C are no string——
v482aArrange care of biological children under age 18string——
v482bPrimary caregiver of children under age 18string——
v482cArrange care of non-biological children < 18string——
h1Whether the respondent has a health card for the child and whether she could produce it for the interviewer. Code 1 meanstring——
h1aWhether the respondent has a health card or other vaccination document BASE: Living children born in the last 3 years (Bstring——
h2Whether a date of vaccination was recorded on the health card for BCG. Code 1 means the child has a date recorded for thstring——
h2dBCG vaccination date - day.string——
h2mBCG vaccination date - month.string——
h2yBCG vaccination date - year. This variable now occupies 4 digits.string——
h3DPT 1 vaccination. As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y.string——
h4Polio 1 vaccination. As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y.string——
h5DPT 2 vaccination. As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y.string——
h6Polio 2 vaccination. As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y.string——
h7DPT 3 vaccination. As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y.string——
h8Polio 3 vaccination. As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y.string——
h9Measles 1 vaccination. As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y. There was only one measles vaccination prior to the DHS VII recode.string——
h9aMeasles 2 vaccination. As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y.string——
h0Polio 0 (at birth) As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y. If the vaccination date reported is inconsistent with the date of bistring——
h10Whether the child ever received any vaccination to prevent him/her from getting diseases. This variable comes from a sinstring——
h33Received Vitamin A1. As for H2.string——
h33dVitamin A1 vaccination date - day As for H2D.string——
h33mVitamin A1 vaccination date - month As for H2M.string——
h33yVitamin A1 vaccination date - year As for H2Y. Vaccination campaigns Questions pertaining to H35 to H36F are no string——
h35Any vaccinations in the last 2 years given as part of a national immunization day campaignstring——
h36aVaccinated during Campaign Astring——
h36bVaccinated during Campaign Bstring——
h36cVaccinated during Campaign Cstring——
h36dVaccinated during Campaign Dstring——
h36eVaccinated during Campaign Estring——
h36fVaccinated during Campaign F BASE for H36A-F: Vaccination campaigns conducted in the area (H35 = 1). Vitamin A second mostring——
h40Received Vitamin A2. As for H2.string——
h40dVitamin A2 vaccination date - day As for H2D.string——
h40mVitamin A2 vaccination date - month As for H2M.string——
h40yVitamin A2 vaccination date - year As for H2Y. Vitamin Astring——
h41aReceived vitamin A after most recent in cardstring——
h41bEver received Vitamin A dose Hepatitis B at birthstring——
h50Received Hepatitis B at birth As for H2.string——
h50dHepatitis B at birth vaccination date – day As for H2D.string——
h50mHepatitis B at birth vaccination date – month As for H2M.string——
h50yHepatitis B at birth vaccination date – year As for H2Y. Pentavalentstring——
h51Received Pentavalent 1 As for H2.string——
h51dPentavalent 1 vaccination date – day As for H2D.string——
h51mPentavalent 1 vaccination date – month As for H2M.string——
h51yPentavalent 1 vaccination date – year As for H2Y.string——
h52Pentavalent 2 vaccination As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y.string——
h53Pentavalent 3 vaccination As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y Pneumococcalstring——
h54Received Pneumococcal 1 As for H2.string——
h54dPneumococcal 1 vaccination date – day As for H2D.string——
h54mPneumococcal 1 vaccination date – month As for H2M.string——
h54yPneumococcal 1 vaccination date – year As for H2Y.string——
h55Pneumococcal 2 As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y.string——
h56Pneumococcal 3 As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y. Rotavirusstring——
h57Received Rotavirus 1 As for H2.string——
h57dRotavirus 1 vaccination date – day As for H2D.string——
h57mRotavirus 1 vaccination date – month As for H2M.string——
h57yRotavirus 1 vaccination date – year As for H2Y.string——
h58Rotavirus 2 As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y.string——
h59Rotavirus 3 As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y. Polio inactivestring——
h60Received Polio inactive As for H2.string——
h60dPolio inactive vaccination date – day As for H2D.string——
h60mPolio inactive vaccination date – month As for H2M.string——
h60yPolio inactive vaccination date – year As for H2Y. Hepatitis B 1string——
h61Received Hepatitis B 1 As for H2.string——
h61dHepatitis B 1 vaccination date – day As for H2D.string——
h61mHepatitis B 1 vaccination date – month As for H2M.string——
h61yHepatitis B 1 vaccination date – year As for H2Y.string——
h62Hepatitis B 2 As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y.string——
h63Hepatitis B 3 As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y. HiB 1string——
h64Received Hib 1 As for H2.string——
h64dHib 1 vaccination date – day As for H2D.string——
h64mHib 1 vaccination date – month As for H2M.string——
h64yHib 1 vaccination date – year As for H2Y.string——
h65Hib 2 As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y.string——
h66Hib 3 As for H2, H2D, H2M, H2Y.string——
h80aIn the last 7 days given: LOCAL NAME for multiple micronutrient powderstring——
h80bIn the last 7 days given: LOCAL NAME for ready to use therapeutic foodstring——
h80cIn the last 7 days given: LOCAL NAME for ready to use supplementary foodstring——
h80dIn the last 7 days given: country specificstring——
h80eIn the last 7 days given: country specificstring——
h80fIn the last 7 days given: country specificstring——
h80gIn the last 7 days given: country specificstring——
h11Whether the child had diarrhea in the last 24 hours or within the last two weeks. Code 1 is country specific for surveysstring——
h11bWhether there was any blood in the stools. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the vastring——
h12aGovernment Hospitalstring——
h12bCountry-specific public sectorstring——
h12cCountry-specific public sectorstring——
h12dCountry-specific public sectorstring——
h12eCountry-specific public sectorstring——
h12fCountry-specific public sectorstring——
h12gCountry-specific public sectorstring——
h12hCountry-specific public sectorstring——
h12iCountry-specific public sectorstring——
h12jPrivate Hospital or Clinicstring——
h12kPharmacystring——
h12lPrivate Doctorstring——
h12mCountry-specific medical private sectorstring——
h12nCountry-specific medical private sectorstring——
h12oCountry-specific medical private sectorstring——
h12pCountry-specific medical private sectorstring——
h12qCountry-specific medical private sectorstring——
h12rCountry-specific medical private sector Other Private Sector.string——
h12sCountry-specific medical private sectorstring——
h12tCountry-specific medical private sectorstring——
h12uCountry-specific medical private sectorstring——
h12vCountry-specific medical private sectorstring——
h12wCountry-specific medical private sectorstring——
h12xOtherstring——
h12yWhether no treatment or advice was sought for the diarrhea as reported by the respondent.string——
h12zWhether the child was taken to a medical facility for treatment of the diarrhea. This usually includes being taken to alstring——
h13Whether the child received a sugar-salt-water solution from a special packet (ORS). H13 is coded 1 if the respondent spostring——
h13bGiven a pre-packaged ORS liquid.string——
h14Whether the child was given the recommended home solution. H14 is coded 1 if the respondent spontaneously reported givinstring——
h15Whether the child was given antibiotic pills or syrups.string——
h15aWhether the child was given antimotility pills or syrups.string——
h15bWhether the child was given an antibiotic injection.string——
h15cWhether the child was given an IV (Intravenous feeding).string——
h15dWhether the child was given home remedies or herbal medicines.string——
h15eWhether the child was given zincstring——
h15fWhether the child was given other (not antibiotic, antimotility, zinc)string——
h15gWhether the child was given an unknown pill or syrupstring——
h15hWhether the child was given not antibiotic injectionstring——
h15iWhether the child was given an unknown injectionstring——
h20Whether the child received any other treatment.string——
h21aWhether the respondent reported that the child received no treatment.string——
h21Whether the child received any treatment or whether advice or treatment was sought for the child. This is a summary of tstring——
h22Whether the child had fever in the last two weeks. Variables H31 to H32Z relate to the prevalence and treatment of coughstring——
h31Whether the child had suffered from a cough in the last two weeks and whether the child had been ill with the cough in tstring——
h31bWhether the child had suffered from rapid breathing. BASE: All living children born in the last 5 years. In previous recstring——
h31cWhether the child has a problem in the chest or a blocked or running nose.string——
h31dAmount offered to the child to drink. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variablstring——
h31eAmount offered to the child to eat. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable string——
h32aGovernment Hospitalstring——
h32bCountry-specific public sectorstring——
h32cCountry-specific public sectorstring——
h32dCountry-specific public sectorstring——
h32eCountry-specific public sectorstring——
h32fCountry-specific public sectorstring——
h32gCountry-specific public sectorstring——
h32hCountry-specific public sectorstring——
h32iCountry-specific public sectorstring——
h32jPrivate Hospital or Clinicstring——
h32kPharmacystring——
h32lPrivate Doctorstring——
h32mCountry-specific medical private sectorstring——
h32nCountry-specific medical private sectorstring——
h32oCountry-specific medical private sectorstring——
h32pCountry-specific medical private sectorstring——
h32qCountry-specific medical private sectorstring——
h32rCountry-specific medical private sector Other Private Sector.string——
h32sCountry-specific other private sectorstring——
h32tCountry-specific other private sectorstring——
h32uCountry-specific other private sectorstring——
h32vCountry-specific other private sectorstring——
h32wCountry-specific other private sectorstring——
h32xOtherstring——
h32yWhether no treatment or advice was sought for the fever and/or cough as reported by the respondent.string——
h32zWhether the child was taken to a medical facility for treatment of the fever and/or cough. This usually includes being tstring——
h34Whether the respondent received or not a vitamin A dose in form of an ampoule, a capsule or syrup in last 6 months BASE:string——
h37aSP/Fansidarstring——
h37bChloroquinestring——
h37cAmodiaquinestring——
h37dQuininestring——
h37eCombination with artemisininstring——
h37fCountry specific antimalarialstring——
h37gCountry specific antimalarialstring——
h37hOther antimalarialstring——
h37iAntibiotic pills or syrupstring——
h37jAntibiotic injectionstring——
h37kAspirinstring——
h37lAcetaminophen/paracetamol/panadolstring——
h37mIbuprofenstring——
h37nCountry specificstring——
h37oCountry specificstring——
h37pCountry specificstring——
h37xOtherstring——
h37yNothingstring——
h37zDon't know if or what was taken Drinking and eating pattern during diarrheastring——
h38Amount offered to drinkstring——
h39Amount offered to eat BASE for H38 and H39: Diarrhea last two weeks (H11 = 1 or H11 = 2).string——
h42Taking iron pills, sprinkles with iron or iron syrup in the last 7 days BASE: All living children born in the last five string——
h43Drugs for intestinal parasites in last 6 months BASE: All living children born in the last five years (B19 < 60 and B5 =string——
h44aPlace first sought treatment for diarrhea BASE: Received diarrhea treatment (H12Y = 0).string——
h44bDays after diarrhea sought advice or treatmentstring——
h44cStill has diarrheastring——
h45Times zinc was given. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable is kept in thestring——
h46aPlace first sought treatment for fever of difficulty breathingstring——
h46bDays after fever sought advice or treatment. This questions is no longer part of the DHS VIIstring——
h47Blood taken from child's finger/heel for testingstring——
hw2Weight in kilograms. There is one implied decimal place in the weight (decimal points are not included in the data file)string——
hw3Height in centimeters. There is one implied decimal place in the height (decimal points are not included in the data filstring——
hw4Height for Age percentilestring——
hw5Height for Age standard deviations from the reference medianstring——
hw6Height for Age percent of reference medianstring——
hw7Weight for Age percentilestring——
hw8Weight for Age standard deviations from the reference medianstring——
hw9Weight for Age percent of reference medianstring——
hw10Weight for Height percentilestring——
hw11Weight for Height standard deviations from the reference medianstring——
hw12Weight for Height percent of reference median The measures above were calculated using the CDC Standard Deviation-derivestring——
hw13Reason the child was not measured. Fully measured children are coded 0, dead children are coded 1, and other reasons forstring——
hw15Whether the child was measured lying down or standing up. In DHS surveys, children aged less than 24 months are to be mestring——
hw16Day of birth of the child. This is used in conjunction with the date of measurement of the child to more finely calculatstring——
hw17Day of measurement.string——
hw18Month of measurement.string——
hw19Year of measurement. This variable now occupies 4 digits. Hemoglobin Variables HW51 to HW58 are further restricted to hostring——
hw51Line number of parent/caretakerstring——
hw52Whether the consent to draw a droplet of blood was granted after reading a consent statement to a parent/responsible adustring——
hw53Hemoglobin level in g/dl with 1 implied decimalstring——
hw55Result of measuring (Hemoglobin). Fully measured children are coded 0, dead children are coded 1, and other reasons for string——
hw56Hemoglobin level adjusted by altitude in g/dl with 1 implied decimalstring——
hw57Anemia levels below 7.0 g/dl are considered as severe anemia, levels between 7.1g/dl and 9.9g/dl are considered as moderstring——
hw58Agrees to referral. In case where the anemia level is severe, respondents are asked whether this information can be givestring——
hw71Weight for age standard deviation (according to WHO)string——
hw72Weight for height standard deviations (according to WHO)string——
hw73BMI standard deviations (according to WHO) The measures above were calculated using the new Child Growth Standards releastring——
v502Whether the respondent is currently, formerly or never married (or lived with a partner). Currently married includes marstring——
v503Whether the respondent has been married or lived with a man once or more than once. BASE: Ever-married women (V501 <> 0)string——
v504Whether the partner lives in the household or is now living elsewhere. BASE: Currently married or in union women (V502 =string——
v505Whether the respondent is in a polygynous union and the number of other wives the respondent's partner currently has. BAstring——
v506The rank of the respondent among the partner's wives. BASE: Currently married or in union women in a polygynous union (Vstring——
v507Month of start of first marriage or union (see note on imputed dates)string——
v508Year of start of first marriage or union (see note on imputed dates). This variable now occupies 4 digits.string——
v509Century month code of the date of start of first marriage or union (see note on century month codes).string——
v510Completeness of information for the date of start of the first marriage or union (see note on imputed dates)string——
v511Age at start of first marriage or union is calculated from the century month code of the date of start of first marriagestring——
v512Years since start of first marriage or union is calculated from the century month code of the start of first marriage orstring——
v513Marital duration is actually the number of years elapsed since the start of the first marriage or union until the date ostring——
v525Age at first sexual intercourse. Respondents who had never had sex are coded 0. The response category "First sexual intestring——
v527Time since the last sexual relations as reported by the respondent. The first digit gives the units in which the respondstring——
v528Time since the last sexual intercourse in days is calculated from the preceding variable. Durations of more than 30 daysstring——
v529Computed time since last sexual intercourse. This is computed from the responses for V527, with durations exceeding the string——
v531Age at first sexual intercourse - imputed. This is the same as V525, except for respondents who reported that their firsstring——
v532Flag variable for inconsistencies found in editing the responses for V525. 0 No flag 1 Respondent reported astring——
v535Whether the respondent has ever been married or lived with a man. BASE: Women who are not currently married and not livistring——
v536Recent sexual activity gives the sexual activity of the respondents during the last four weeks coded as follows: 0 string——
v537Months of abstinence. Postpartum or not postpartum abstinence. The questions pertaining to V538, V539 and V540 are no lostring——
v538How previous marriage or union ended. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variablstring——
v539Person who received most of late husband's property. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, string——
v540Respondent received any of late husband's assets or valuables. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core queststring——
v541Intends to wait until marriage to have sex. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the vstring——
v602The “Fertility preferences” come primarily from a single question in the DHS V and DHS VII questionnaires. Women who resstring——
v603Preferred waiting time before the birth of another child is created from a single question asking how long from the datestring——
v604The preferred waiting time to the next birth is grouped into 12-month categories with responses of more than six years cstring——
v605Desire for more children is a constructed variable classifying respondents who want more children by whether they want tstring——
v613The ideal number of children that the respondent would have liked to have in her whole life, irrespective of the number string——
v614This variable groups the preceding variable such that 6 or more children are in one category 6+ and all non-numeric respstring——
v616This variable records the original response to the question "How long would you like to wait from now before the birth ostring——
v621Whether the respondent believes her partner wants the same number of children, more children or fewer children than she string——
v625Exposure status (definition 2) reclassifies variable V623, using a more liberal definition ofstring——
v625aExposure to need for contraception (definition 3). A detailed explanation of the changesstring——
v626Unmet need (definition 2) follows exactly the same logic as V624, but uses the definition ofstring——
v626aUnmet need for contraception (definition 3). A detailed explanation of the changes in thestring——
v627Ideal number of boysstring——
v628Ideal number of girlsstring——
v629Ideal number of either sexstring——
v631If the respondent discovered that she became pregnant would that be a problem. This question is no longer part of the DHstring——
v632Women in union and using contraception are asked who decided on the use of contraception. BASE: V502 = 1 and V312 <> 0string——
v632aWomen in union, not using contraception and not pregnant are asked who decided on the non-use of contraception. BASE: V5string——
v633aHusband has STDstring——
v633bHusband has other womenstring——
v633cRecent birthstring——
v633dTired, moodstring——
v633eCountry specificstring——
v633fCountry specificstring——
v633gCountry specificstring——
v634Whether the husband knows that respondent is using contraception.string——
v701The current or most recent husband or partner's highest level of education attended. See variable V106. BASE: Currently string——
v702Highest year of education gives the years of education completed at the level given in V701. BASE: Currently married or string——
v704Current or last husband or partner's most recent occupation as collected in the country. Codes are country-specific. BASstring——
v704aCurrent or last husband or partner worked in the past 7 days or 12 months BASE: Currently married or in union women (V50string——
v705Standardized partner's occupation groups. Agricultural categories also include fishermen, foresters and hunters and are string——
v714Whether the respondent is currently working. BASE: All women.string——
v714aWhether the respondent has a job or business from which she was absent for leave, illness, vacation, maternity leave, orstring——
v715Most recent husband or partner's education in single years. See variable V133. BASE: Currently married or in union womenstring——
v716Respondent's occupation as collected in the country. Codes are country-specific. BASE: All womenstring——
v717Standardized respondent's occupation groups. Agricultural categories also include fishermen, foresters and hunters and astring——
v719Whether the respondent works for a family member, for someone else or is self-employed.string——
v721Whether the respondent works at home or away from home. This question is no longer partstring——
v729Educational achievement recodes the education of the partner into the following categories:string——
v730Age of the respondent's husband or partner.string——
v731Whether the respondent worked in the last 12 months.string——
v732Whether the respondent works throughout the year, seasonally, or just occasionally.string——
v739The person who mainly decides how the money earned by the respondent is used.string——
v740Whether the respondent works on her own land, family land, rented land or on someonestring——
v741Type of earnings for work. The respondent is asked whether they receive cash for theirstring——
v743aRespondent’s health carestring——
v743bMaking large household purchasesstring——
v743cMaking household purchases for daily needsstring——
v743dVisits to family or relativesstring——
v743eFood to be cooked each daystring——
v743fWhat to do with money husband earns It is the respondent’s opinion that a husband is justified in hitting or beating hisstring——
v744aShe goes out without telling himstring——
v744bShe neglects the childrenstring——
v744cShe argues with himstring——
v744dShe refuses to have sex with himstring——
v744eShe burns the food.string——
v745aOwns a house alone or jointly BASE: All women.string——
v745bOwns land alone or jointly BASE: All women .string——
v745cWhether the respondent’s name is on the title deed for the owned house BASE: Respondents who own a house alone or jointlstring——
v745dWhether the respondent’s name is on the title deed for the owned land BASE: Respondents who own land alone or jointly (Vstring——
v746Whether the respondent earns more than her partner. BASE: Currently married or in union women who were paid cash for thestring——
v750Heard of AIDS or other sexually transmitted Diseases. BASE: All women.string——
v751Whether the respondent has ever heard of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). BASE: All women. Reduce chances of string——
v756Whether the respondent believes it is possible for a healthy-looking person to have the AIDS virus. BASE: Women who havestring——
v761Whether the respondent used a condom the last time she had sexual intercourse. BASE: Women who had at least 1 sexual parstring——
v761bWith other man (1) BASE: Women who had at least 2 sexual partners during the last 12 months (V766B > 1).string——
v761cWith other man (2) BASE: Women who had at least 3 sexual partners during the last 12 months (V766B > 2).string——
v762Source of condoms used for last sex with the most recent partnerstring——
v762aBrand of condoms used for last sex with the most recent partner BASE: For V762 and V762A is women who used a condom the string——
v763aAny STDstring——
v763bGenital sore/ulcerstring——
v763cGenital dischargestring——
v763dCountry specificstring——
v763eCountry specificstring——
v763fCountry specificstring——
v763gCountry specificstring——
v766aNumber of men other than the husbandstring——
v766bNumber of men including the husbandstring——
v767aLast partnerstring——
v767bOther sexual partner (1)string——
v767cOther sexual partner (2)string——
v768aLast partnerstring——
v768bOther sexual partner (1)string——
v768cOther sexual partner (2)string——
v769Male condomstring——
v769aFemale condomstring——
v770Last STD infectionstring——
v770aGovernment clinicstring——
v770bCountry specific public sectorstring——
v770cCountry specific public sectorstring——
v770dCountry specific public sectorstring——
v770eCountry specific public sectorstring——
v770fCountry specific public sectorstring——
v770gCountry specific public sectorstring——
v770hCountry specific public sectorstring——
v770iCountry specific public sectorstring——
v770jCountry specific public sectorstring——
v770kPrivate hospital/clinic/doctorstring——
v770lCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
v770mCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
v770nCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
v770oCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
v770pCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
v770qCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
v770rCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
v770sCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
v770tCountry specific other private sectorstring——
v770uCountry specific other private sectorstring——
v770vCountry specific other private sectorstring——
v770wCountry specific other private sectorstring——
v770xSeek advice from otherstring——
v774aDuring pregnancystring——
v774bDuring deliverystring——
v774cBy breastfeedingstring——
v775Respondent knows personally someone who has or died of AIDS. This question is nostring——
v777Family allowed to keep secret an AIDS infection of a member. This variable is no longerstring——
v777aRespondent would be ashamed if someone in the family had HIVstring——
v778Respondent willing to care for a relative in the household who has AIDS. This variable is nostring——
v779Person with AIDS allowed to continue teaching. This variable is no longer part of the DHSstring——
v780Should children be taught about condoms. This variable is no longer part of the DHS VIIstring——
v781Ever been tested for AIDSstring——
v783Know a place to get AIDS teststring——
v784aGovernment hospitalstring——
v784bCountry specific public sectorstring——
v784cCountry specific public sectorstring——
v784dCountry specific public sectorstring——
v784eCountry specific public sectorstring——
v784fCountry specific public sectorstring——
v784gCountry specific public sectorstring——
v784hCountry specific public sectorstring——
v784iCountry specific public sectorstring——
v784jCountry specific public sectorstring——
v784kPrivate hospital/clinic/doctorstring——
v784lCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
v784mCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
v784nCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
v784oCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
v784pCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
v784qCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
v784rCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
v784sCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
v784tCountry specific other private sectorstring——
v784uCountry specific other private sectorstring——
v784vCountry specific other private sectorstring——
v784xOtherstring——
v785Heard about other STDsstring——
v791aHad sex in return for gifts, cash or anything else in the past 12 months BASE: Women who are aged 15-24 and not in a unistring——
v820Condom used at first sexual intercourse. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the varistring——
v821aLast sexual partner younger, the same age or olderstring——
v821bNext to last sexual partner younger, the same age or olderstring——
v821cSecond to last sexual partner younger, the same age or olderstring——
v822Wife justified to ask husband to use condom if he has an STI. BASE: All women. Get AIDSstring——
v823Can get AIDS by witchcraft or supernatural means. BASE: Women who heard of AIDS (V751 = 1).string——
v824Drugs to avoid AIDS transmission to baby during pregnancy. BASE: Women who heard of AIDS and know HIV can be transmittedstring——
v825Would buy vegetables from vendor with AIDS. BASE: Women who heard of AIDS (V751 = 1).string——
v826aThe number of months ago the respondent had her most recent HIV test BASE: Women who were ever tested for HIV (V781 = 1)string——
v826When was last time the respondent was tested.string——
v827Last test was on respondent’s request, offered or required.string——
v828Did get results for last test.string——
v829Place where last AIDS test was taken. This variable comes from two different questions, the first question is the place string——
v830Age of first sexual partner. BASE: Youth 15-24 who ever had sex.string——
v831First sexual partner younger, same age or older.string——
v832bWith next to last sexual partner BASE: Women who had at least 2 sexual partners during the last 12 months (V766B > 1).string——
v832cWith second to last sexual partner BASE: Women who had at least 3 sexual partners during the last 12 months (V766B > 2).string——
v833aWith last sex partner BASE: Women who had at least 1 sexual partner during the last 12 months, and used a condom during string——
v833bWith next to last sex partner BASE: Women who had at least 2 sexual partners during the last 12 months, and used a condostring——
v833cEvery time had sex with second to last sex partner BASE: Women who had at least 3 sexual partners during the last 12 monstring——
v834aLast sexual partner BASE: Women who had at least 1 sexual partner during the last 12 months (V766B > 0).string——
v834bNext to last sexual partner BASE: Women who had at least 2 sexual partners during the last 12 months (V766B > 1).string——
v834cSecond to last sexual partner BASE: Women who had at least 3 sexual partners during the last 12 months (V766B > 2). Alcostring——
v835aLast time had sexstring——
v835bNext to last time had sexstring——
v835cSecond to last time had sexstring——
v836Total lifetime number of sexual partners. BASE: Women who ever had sex (V525 <> 0).string——
v837Heard of drugs to help infected people to live longer. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnairestring——
v838aAIDS transmitted mother to child.string——
v838bThings to do to prevent AIDSstring——
v838cGetting tested for AIDS virus.string——
v839Offered AIDS test.string——
v839aOffered HIV test between the time went for delivery and before baby was bornstring——
v840Tested for AIDS virus.string——
v840aTested for HIV between the time went for delivery and before baby was bornstring——
v841Got results of HIV test.string——
v841aGot results of HIV test when tested before baby was bornstring——
v842Place where AIDS test was taken.string——
v843Tested for HIV since the time she was tested during her pregnancy.string——
v844Health servicesstring——
v845Social eventsstring——
v846Verbally abusedstring——
v847People with AIDS should be ashamed of themselves.string——
v848People with AIDS should be blamed for bringing disease to community.string——
v849Children 12-14 should wait for sex until marriage.string——
v850aCan respondent refuse sex.string——
v850bCan ask partner to use condom.string——
v851aYoung men should wait for sex until marriage.string——
v851bMost young men wait for sex until marriage.string——
v851cUnmarried sexually active men should only have sex with one partner.string——
v851dMost unmarried sexually active men have only one partner.string——
v851eMarried men should only have sex with their wives.string——
v851fMost married men only have sex with their wives.string——
v851gYoung women should wait for sex until marriage.string——
v851hMost young women wait for sex until marriage.string——
v851iUnmarried sexually active women should have only one partner.string——
v851jMost unmarried sexually active women have only one partner.string——
v851kMarried women should only have sex with their husbands.string——
v851lMost married women only have sex with their husbands. Time ago first had sexual intercourse with up to three sexual partstring——
v852aHow long ago first had sex with most recent partner BASE: Women who had at least 1 sexual partner during the last 12 monstring——
v852bHow long ago first had sex with 2nd most recent partner BASE: Women who had at least 2 sexual partners during the last 1string——
v852cHow long ago first had sex with 3rd most recent partner BASE: Women who had at least 3 sexual partners during the last 1string——
v853aTimes in last 12 months had sex with most recent partner BASE: Women who had at least 1 sexual partner during the last 1string——
v853bTimes in last 12 months had sex with 2nd most recent partner BASE: Women who had at least 2 sexual partners during the lstring——
v853cTimes in last 12 months had sex with 3rd most recent partner BASE: Women who had at least 3 sexual partners during the lstring——
v854aPoint concurrent sexual partnersstring——
v854bCumulative concurrent sexual partnersstring——
v855Received counseling after tested for AIDS during antenatal care BASE: Women who got the result of the HIV test (V841=1).string——
v856Knowledge and use of HIV test kits BASE: Heard of AIDS (V751 = 1) Attitudes towards people living with HIV BASE: For V85string——
v857aWhether the respondent thinks children with HIV should be allowed to attend school with children not having HIVstring——
v857bWhether the respondent thinks that people hesitate to take an HIV test because they are afraid of how other people will string——
v857cWhether people talk badly about people with or believed to have HIVstring——
v857dWhether people with HIV or believed to have HIV lose the respect of other peoplestring——
v858Whether the respondent fear to get HIV from contact with salvia of a person with HIVstring——
v801Time of the start of the interview. The first two digits give the time in hours using the 24- hour clock, and the last tstring——
v802Time of the end of interview is coded as for the start of interview. BASE: All women.string——
v803Length of interview in minutes is calculated from the previous two variables, but with interviews that required more thastring——
v804Number of visits for the interview BASE: All women.string——
v805Interviewer identification code. Codes are country-specific. This variable occupies 3 digits starting from DHS III. BASEstring——
v806Data entry keyer code. Codes are country-specific. BASE: All women. Presence of other people during the interview of thestring——
v811Presence of children aged under age 10string——
v812Presence of the husbandstring——
v813Presence of other malesstring——
v814Presence of other females Presence of other people during the sexual activity section of the interview BASE: For V815A tstring——
v815aPresence of children under age 10string——
v815bPresence of male adultsstring——
v815cPresence of female adultsstring——
mm1Sex of siblingstring——
mm2Whether the sibling is dead or alivestring——
mm3Current age of sibling in years BASE: All living siblings (MM2 = 1).string——
mm4CMC date of birth of sibling is based on a crude imputation process. The analysts may elect to perform their own imputatstring——
mm5Sibling's marital status: whether the sibling is/was ever married or not. This question is no longer part of the DHS VIIstring——
mm6Number of years ago the respondent's brother or sister died.string——
mm7Age at death of sibling in yearsstring——
mm8CMC date of death of sibling: the analyst may choose to perform their own imputation procedure, as for the CMC date of bstring——
mm9Indicates if the respondent's sister was pregnant when she died, if she died during childbirth, within six weeks after tstring——
mm10Information about whether the death that occurred was related to the sister's pregnancy. This question is no longer partstring——
mm11Specifies the cause of death. Codes are country specific. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnastring——
mm12Time between delivery and death -- used in countries where questions relating to fixed periods of time between delivery string——
mm13Place in which the death occurred. Codes are country specific. BASE: Siblings who have died (MM2 = 0).string——
mm14The number of children to whom the female sibling gave birth to during her live. In most countries, for women with a matstring——
mm15Year of death of sibling. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable is kept instring——
mm16Death due to violence or an accident BASE: All siblings who have died (MM2 = 0).string——
mmc1The number of occurrences of the maternal mortality section. This variable gives the number of the respondent's brothersstring——
mmc2The number of births to the respondent's mother preceding the respondent's birth. This variable gives the number of brotstring——
mmc3In some countries information about the siblings is given by one of the sisters of the respondent, and not by the responstring——
mmc4Line numbers in the household schedule of the eligible sisters of the respondent. . This question is no longer part of tstring——
mmc5Cut off age for this section. In most countries the age of 12 was taken as the cut off age, however in some countries thstring——
ml0Type of bednet(s) child slept under last night, i.e. did not sleep under a net, slept only under an ITN treated net, slestring——
ml1Times took SP/Fansidar during pregnancy.string——
ml2Type of visit at source for SP/Fansidarduring pregnancy. BASE: The base for ML1 and ML2 in the DHS VII core questionnairstring——
ml11Child has fever now.string——
ml12Child has had convulsions in last 2 weeks. Medication for fever or difficulty breathingstring——
ml13aFansidarstring——
ml13bChloroquinestring——
ml13cAmodiaquinestring——
ml13dQuininestring——
ml13eCombination with artemisininstring——
ml13fCountry Specific antimalarialstring——
ml13gCountry Specific antimalarialstring——
ml13hOther antimalarialstring——
ml13iAntibiotic pills or syrupstring——
ml13jAntibiotic injectionstring——
ml13kAspirinstring——
ml13lAcetaminophen/paracetamol/panadolstring——
ml13mIbuprofenstring——
ml13nCountry Specific otherstring——
ml13oCountry Specific otherstring——
ml13pCountry Specific otherstring——
ml13xOtherstring——
ml13yNothingstring——
ml13zDon't know if or what was takenstring——
ml14aInjection for fever/convulsionstring——
ml14bSuppository for fever/convulsionstring——
ml14yNo suppository or injection for fever/convulsionstring——
ml14zDon't know if suppository or injection for fever/convulsionstring——
ml15aWhen started Fansidarstring——
ml15bDays child took Fansidarstring——
ml15cFirst source for Fansidarstring——
ml16aWhen started Chloroquinestring——
ml16bDays child took Chloroquinestring——
ml16cFirst source for Chloroquinestring——
ml17aWhen started Amodiaquinestring——
ml17bDays child took Amodiaquinestring——
ml17cFirst source for Amodiaquinestring——
ml18aWhen started Quininestring——
ml18bDays child took Quininestring——
ml18cFirst source for Quininestring——
ml19aConsulted traditional healer.string——
ml19bGave tepid sponging.string——
ml19cGave herbsstring——
ml19dCountry Specificstring——
ml19eCountry Specificstring——
ml19fCountry Specificstring——
ml19xOtherstring——
ml19yGave nothingstring——
ml19zDon't know if something else was donestring——
ml20aWhen started combination with Artemisinin (ACT) BASE: Children who took combination with Artemisinin during illness (ML1string——
ml20bDays child took combination with Artemisininstring——
ml20cFirst source for combination with Artemisininstring——
ml21aWhen started Country Specific antimalarial BASE: Children who took Country Specific antimalarial during illness (ML13F =string——
ml21bDays child took Country Specific antimalarialstring——
ml21cFirst source for Country Specific antimalarialstring——
ml22aWhen started Country Specific antimalarial BASE: Children who took Country Specific antimalarial during illness (ML13G =string——
ml22bDays child took Country Specific antimalarialstring——
ml22cFirst source for Country Specific antimalarialstring——
ml23aWhen started other anti-malarial BASE: Children who took other anti-malarial during illness (ML13H = 1).string——
ml23bDays child took other anti-malarial Questions pertaining to ML23C and ML24C are no longer part of the DHS VII core queststring——
ml23cFirst source for other anti-malarialstring——
ml24cFirst source for antibiotic pill/syrupstring——
ml25aWhen started Artesunate BASE: Children who took Artesunate during illness (ML13AA = 1 or ML13AB = 1).string——
d005Weight for domestic violence respondents (6 decimals). BASE: All women eligible for domestic violence and interviewed (Vstring——
d101aHusband jealous if talking with other menstring——
d101bHusband accuses her of unfaithfulness.string——
d101cDoes not permit her to meet her girl-friends.string——
d101dHusband tries to limit her contact with family.string——
d101eHusband insists on knowing where she is.string——
d101fHusband doesn't trust her with money.string——
d101gCountry specific control issuestring——
d101hCountry specific control issuestring——
d101iCountry specific control issuestring——
d101jCountry specific control issuestring——
d102Number of control issues Emotional violence BASE: Women currently in union (V502 = 1).string——
d103aSpouse ever humiliated her.string——
d103bSpouse ever threatened her with harm.string——
d103cSpouse ever insulted her or made her feel bad.string——
d103dCountry specific emotional abuse: ever.string——
d103eCountry specific emotional abuse: ever.string——
d103fCountry specific emotional abuse: ever.string——
d104Ever any emotional violence Physical violence BASE: Women currently in union (V502 = 1).string——
d105aSpouse ever pushed, shook or threw something.string——
d105bSpouse ever slapped.string——
d105cSpouse ever punched with fist or something harmful.string——
d105dSpouse ever kicked or dragged.string——
d105eSpouse ever tried to strangle or burn.string——
d105fSpouse ever threatened with knife/gun or other weapon.string——
d105gSpouse ever attacked with knife/gun or other weapon.string——
d105hSpouse ever physically forced sex when not wanted.string——
d105iSpouse ever forced other sexual acts when not wanted.string——
d105jSpouse ever twisted her arm or pulled her hair.string——
d105kPhysical violencestring——
d105lPhysical violencestring——
d105mPhysical violencestring——
d105nPhysical violencestring——
d106Experienced any less severe violence.string——
d107Experienced any severe violence.string——
d108Experienced any sexual violence.string——
d109First time it happened. BASE: Women currently in union and experienced any violence (V502 = 1 and D106 = 1 or D107 = 1 ostring——
d110aEver had bruises because of husband's action.string——
d110bEver had injury, sprain, dislocations or burns.string——
d110cEver went to health facility because of husband's action.string——
d110dEver had wounds, broken bones, broken teeth or other serious.string——
d110eBecause of husband's actionstring——
d110fBecause of husband's actionstring——
d110gBecause of husband's actionstring——
d110hBecause of husband's actionstring——
d111Any results of husband's actions. BASE: Women currently in union (V502 = 1).string——
d112Ever physically hurt husband when he was not hurting respondent. BASE: Women currently in union (V502 = 1).string——
d112aHow often physically hurt husband in last 12 months. BASE: Women currently in union ever physically hurt husband (V502 =string——
d113Partner drinks alcohol. BASE: Women currently in union (V502 = 1).string——
d114Times partner gets drunk. BASE: Women currently in union and partner drinks alcohol (V502 = 1 and D113 = 1). Physical abstring——
d115bMotherstring——
d115cFatherstring——
d115dDaughter/sonstring——
d115eSonstring——
d115fSister/brotherstring——
d115gOther relativestring——
d115hOther female familystring——
d115iOther male familystring——
d115jFormer partnerstring——
d115kCurrent boyfriendstring——
d115lFormer boyfriendstring——
d115mStep-motherstring——
d115nStep-fatherstring——
d115oMother-in-lawstring——
d115pFather-in-lawstring——
d115qOther in-lawstring——
d115rOther male in-lawstring——
d115sFemale friendstring——
d115tMale friendstring——
d115uNeighborstring——
d115vTeacherstring——
d115wEmployerstring——
d115xOtherstring——
d115yNo one other than spousestring——
d116Person who hurt her most often. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable is kstring——
d117aTimes physically hit, slapped, kicked or otherwise hurt by other than partner last 12 months. BASE: Women who hurt by a string——
d118aHusbandstring——
d118bMotherstring——
d118cFather/step fatherstring——
d118dDaughter/sonstring——
d118eSon alonestring——
d118fSister/brotherstring——
d118gOther relativestring——
d118hOther female familystring——
d118iOther male familystring——
d118jFormer partnerstring——
d118kCurrent boyfriendstring——
d118lFormer boyfriendstring——
d118mStep-motherstring——
d118nStep-fatherstring——
d118oMother-in-lawstring——
d118pFather-in-lawstring——
d118qOther in-lawstring——
d118rOther female/male in-lawstring——
d118sFemale friendstring——
d118tMale friendstring——
d118uNeighborstring——
d118vTeacherstring——
d118wEmployerstring——
d118xOther personstring——
d118yNo onestring——
d119aHusbandstring——
d119bMotherstring——
d119cFatherstring——
d119dDaughterstring——
d119eSonstring——
d119fSisterstring——
d119gBrotherstring——
d119hOwn familystring——
d119iHusband/partner familystring——
d119jCurrent/former husband/partnerstring——
d119kCurrent/former boyfriendstring——
d119lCurrent/former boyfriend alonestring——
d119mStep-motherstring——
d119nStep-fatherstring——
d119oMother-in-lawstring——
d119pFather-in-lawstring——
d119qOther female in-lawstring——
d119rOther male in-lawstring——
d119sFemale friendstring——
d119tMale friendstring——
d119uNeighborstring——
d119vTeacherstring——
d119wEmployerstring——
d119xOther personstring——
d119yNo onestring——
d120Main reason never sought help. . This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable is string——
d121Father of respondent ever beat her mother. BASE: All women eligible for domestic violence and interviewed (V044 = 1) Intstring——
d122aHusbandstring——
d122bOther malestring——
d122cOther femalestring——
d123First intercourse was wanted or forced. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variastring——
d124Anyone other than partner forced respondent to have sex last 12 m. BASE: Anyone forced respondent to perform sexual actsstring——
d125Anyone forced respondent to perform sexual acts. BASE: All women eligible for domestic violence and interviewed (V044 = string——
d126Age at first forced sexual activity BASE: Women forced to have sexual activity (D108 = 1 and D130B = 1)string——
d127Person who forced respondent to first sexual activity BASE: Anyone forced respondent to perform sexual acts (D125 = 1)string——
d128Have ever told anyone else about violence. BASE: Women who experienced violence (D119Y = 0).string——
d129Respondent afraid of husband/partner most of the time, sometimes or never BASE: Women currently in union (V502 = 1). Viostring——
d130aPrevious husband: ever hit, slap, kick or physically hurt respondentstring——
d130bPrevious husband: physically forced to have sex or to perform sexual actsstring——
g100Ever heard of female circumcision.string——
g101Ever heard of genital cutting (probed). Respondent’s circumcision BASE: Ever heard of female circumcision.string——
g102Respondent circumcised.string——
g103Flesh removed from genital area.string——
g104Genital area just nicked without removing any flesh.string——
g105Genital area sewn closed.string——
g106Age at circumcisionstring——
g107Who performed circumcisionstring——
g108Number of daughters circumcised. Daughter’s circumcision BASE: Women with at least one daughter circumcised.string——
g109Line number of daughter most recently circumcised.string——
g110Flesh removed from genital area of daughter.string——
g111Genital area of daughter just nicked without removing flesh.string——
g112Genital area of daughter sewn closed.string——
g113Age of daughter at circumcisionstring——
g114Who performed daughter’s circumcisionstring——
g115Any daughter who is not circumcisedstring——
g116Intends to have daughter(s) circumcised in future. Benefits of circumcisionstring——
g117aCleanliness/hygienestring——
g117bSocial acceptancestring——
g117cBetter marriage prospectsstring——
g117dVirginity/prevent premarital sexstring——
g117eMore sexual pleasure for menstring——
g117fReligious approvalstring——
g117gCountry Specificstring——
g117hCountry Specificstring——
g117iCountry Specificstring——
g117jCountry Specificstring——
g117xOtherstring——
g117yNo benefitstring——
g118Circumcision is required by religion.string——
g119Circumcision should continue or be stopped.string——
g121Daughter circumcisedstring——
g122Daughter's age at circumcisionstring——
g123Daughter genital area sown closedstring——
g124Person performing daughter's circumcisionstring——
rec91All single occurrence country-specific variables relating to the respondent.string——
rec92Country-specific variables from the birth history (REC21). Variable IDX92 is always included as the first variable in thstring——
rec94Country-specific variables from the maternity history (REC41). Variable IDX94 is always included as the first variable istring——
rec95Country-specific variables from the health history (REC43). Variable IDX95 is always included as the first variable in tstring——
rec96Country-specific variables from the height and weight table (REC44). Variable IDX96 is always included as the first varistring——
mv000This alphabetic country code is used to identify the survey from which the data were collected. The code is based on an string——
mv001Cluster number is the number identifying the sample point as used during the fieldwork. This variable may be a compositestring——
mv002Household number is the number identifying the household in which the respondent was interviewed, within the sample poinstring——
mv003Respondent's line number in the household schedulestring——
mv004Ultimate area unit is a number assigned to each sample point to identify the ultimate area units used in the collection string——
mv005Sample weight is an 8 digit variable with 6 implied decimal places. To use the sample weight divide it by 1000000 beforestring——
mv006Month of interviewstring——
mv007Year of interview. This variable now occupies 4 digits.string——
mv008Century month code of date of interview (see note on century month codes).string——
mv008aCentury day code of date of interview, calculated from MV007, MV008 and MV016 (see note on century day codes)string——
mv009Month of birth of respondent (see note on imputed dates)string——
mv010Year of birth of respondent (see note on imputed dates) now occupies 4 digits.string——
mv011Century month code of date of birth of the respondent (see note on century month codes).string——
mv012Current age in completed years is calculated from the century month code of the date of birth of the respondent (MV011) string——
mv013Current age in 5-year groups is produced by grouping MV012.string——
mv014Completeness of information for the date of birth of the respondent (see note on imputed dates)string——
mv015Result of individual interview. Code 1 represents a completed interview. For all other cases, only MREC01 will exist in string——
mv016Day of the month in which the interview took placestring——
mv021Primary sampling unit is a number assigned to sample points to identify the primary sampling units for use in the calculstring——
mv022Sample strata for sampling errors defines the pairings or groupings of primary sampling units used in the calculation ofstring——
mv023The stratification used in the sample design is the basic geographic units within which the sample was designed. For exastring——
mv024De facto region of residence: This is a copy of MV101, added to this section to allow for analysis of completion rates bstring——
mv025De facto type of place of residence: This is a copy of MV102, added to this section to allow for analysis of completion string——
mv026De facto place of residence is the type of place in which the respondent was interviewed. This is a copy of MV134, addedstring——
mv027Number of visits for the interviewstring——
mv028Interviewer identification code. Codes are country-specific. This variable now occupies 5 digits.string——
mv029Data entry keyer code: Codes are country-specific. This variable now occupies 3 digits.string——
mv030Field supervisor's code: Codes are country-specific. This variable now occupies 5 digits.string——
mv031Field editor's code: Codes are country-specific. This variable now occupies 5 digits.string——
mv032Office editor's code: Codes are country-specific. This variable now occupies 3 digits. Line number, status and age of eastring——
mv034Line numbers of wives as recorded in the household schedule. This is a multiple variable with entries for up to 8 wives.string——
mv034aMen’s wife or partner. For each of the women listed in MV034, it gives her status being either “wife” or “partner” of thstring——
mv034bAge of wife or partner.string——
mv035Number of wives or partners for whom line numbers are given in MV034.string——
mv045aLanguage of the questionnairestring——
mv045bLanguage used in the interviewstring——
mv045cNative language of the interview respondentstring——
mv046Translator used during the interviewstring——
mv801Time of the start of the interview. The first two digits give the time in hours using the 24- hour clock, and the last tstring——
mv802Time of the end of interview is coded as for the start of interview.string——
mv803Length of interview in minutes is calculated from the previous two variables for interviews requiring only one visit. Instring——
mv101De facto region of residence. Region in which the respondent was interviewed. Codes are country-specific. For de jure restring——
mv102De facto type of place of residence. Type of place of residence where the respondent was interviewed as either urban or string——
mv103Childhood place of residence is classified into city, town and countryside as reported by the respondent. In some countrstring——
mv104Number of years the respondent has lived in the village, town, or city where he was interviewed. Visitors to the communistring——
mv105Type of place of previous residence is coded as for MV103. In some countries, additional codes are used for capital/majostring——
mv105aRegion of previous residencestring——
mv106Highest education level attended. This is a standardized variable providing level of education in the following categoristring——
mv107Highest year of education gives the years of education completed at the level given in MV106. BASE: All respondents excestring——
mv130Religion. Both the question and the codes are country-specific.string——
mv131Ethnicity. Both the question and the codes are country-specific.string——
mv133Education in single years. This variable is constructed from the educational level (MV106)string——
mv134De facto place of residence is the type of place in which the respondent was interviewed.string——
mv135Whether the respondent is a usual resident of the household or is just visiting the household.string——
mv136Total number of household members is the number of usual residents plus the number ofstring——
mv138Number of eligible men in the household. Eligible men are usually defined to be men agedstring——
mv149Educational achievement recodes the education of the respondent into the followingstring——
mv150Relationship to the head of the household. These data are taken from the householdstring——
mv151Sex of the head of the householdstring——
mv152Age of the head of the householdstring——
mv155The respondent is asked to read a written sentence and the interviewer would note whetherstring——
mv156Ever participated in a literacy program outside of primary. This question is no longer part ofstring——
mv157Frequency of reading newspaper or magazinestring——
mv158Frequency of listening to radiostring——
mv159Frequency of watching televisionstring——
mv167Times away from home in last 12 monthsstring——
mv168Away for more than one month BASE: Respondents who travelled away from home in last 12 months (MV167 <> 0).string——
mv169aOwns a mobile telephonestring——
mv169bUse mobile telephone for financial transactions BASE: Respondents who own a mobile telephone (MV169A = 1).string——
mv170Has an account in a bank or other financial institutionstring——
mv171aUse of Internetstring——
mv171bFrequency of using Internet last month Wealth indexstring——
mv190Wealth index. For a brief explanation see HV270.string——
mv191Wealth index factor score (5 decimals)string——
mv190aWealth index for urban/ruralstring——
mv191aWealth index factor score for urban/rural (5 decimals)string——
mv201Total number of children ever bornstring——
mv202Total number of sons living at homestring——
mv203Total number of daughters living at homestring——
mv204Total number of sons living away from homestring——
mv205Total number of daughters living away from homestring——
mv206Total number of sons who have diedstring——
mv207Total number of daughters who have died MV201 is the sum of variables MV202 to MV207.string——
mv212Age of respondent at first birthstring——
mv213Whether the respondent’s first listed partner is currently pregnant.string——
mv217Knowledge of the women’s ovulatory cyclestring——
mv218Total number of living children is the sum of variables MV202 to MV205.string——
mv225At the time the respondent’s partner became pregnant with the current pregnancy, whether the current pregnancy was wantestring——
mv245Number of women the respondent fathered the children with.string——
mv246Married to the mother of the first child when he was born. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnstring——
mv247Age BASE: All respondent’s with one or more living children (MV218 > 0).string——
mv248Antenatal check-ups for the mother BASE: Respondent’s with youngest living child 0-2 years old (MV247 < 3).string——
mv249Respondent present during check-ups BASE: Respondents present during checkup with most recent child (MV248 = 1).string——
mv250Place of birth BASE: Respondent’s with youngest living child 0-2 years old (MV247 < 3).string——
mv251Reason for not delivering in health facility. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but thestring——
mv252Drinking pattern when child has diarrhea BASE: Respondent’s with youngest living child 0-2 years old (MV247 < 3).string——
mv301Knowledge of any method is classified into modern, traditional and folkloric methods as follows: Modern methods are Pillstring——
mv302Ever use of a modern, traditional or folkloric method is created in the same way as MV301. This question is no longer pastring——
m304aWhether the method is modern, traditional or folkloric.string——
mv304Knowledge of the method. If questions relating to the method were not asked in the contraceptive table but was asked as string——
mv305Whether the respondent has ever used the contraceptive method. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core queststring——
mv307Whether the method is currently being used. BASE: Respondent’s who new the specific method (MV304 = 1).string——
mv312Current contraceptive methodstring——
mv313Type of contraceptive method categorizes the current contraceptive method as either a modern method, a traditional methostring——
mv323aBrand of condom used. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable is kept in thestring——
mv325bCost of condoms last time obtained. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable string——
mv372aShown condom package. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable is kept in thestring——
mv384aOn the radiostring——
mv384bOn the televisionstring——
mv384cIn a newspaper or magazinestring——
mv384dBy text messages on mobilestring——
mv395Discussed FP with health worker last few months.string——
mv396Whether a woman who is breastfeeding can get pregnant. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnairestring——
mv396aWhether a woman can get pregnant after birth of a childstring——
mv463aCigarettesstring——
mv463bPipestring——
mv463cChewing tobacco.string——
mv463dSnuffstring——
mv463eCountry specificstring——
mv463fCountry specificstring——
mv463gCountry specificstring——
mv463xOtherstring——
mv463zNothingstring——
mv464Number of cigarettes in last 24 hours. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variabstring——
mv464aAverage number of manufactured cigarettes smoked per daystring——
mv464bAverage number of hand-rolled cigarettes smoked per daystring——
mv464cAverage number of kreteks smoked per daystring——
mv464dAverage number of pipes full of tobacco smoked per daystring——
mv464eAverage number of cigars, cheroots or cigarillos smoked per daystring——
mv464fAverage number of water pipe sessions taken per daystring——
mv464gAverage number of others products per daystring——
mv464hAverage number of snuff taken by mouth per daystring——
mv464iAverage number of snuff taken by nose per daystring——
mv464jAverage number of chewing tobacco taken per daystring——
mv464kAverage number of betel quid with tobacco per daystring——
mv464lAverage number of other products per daystring——
mv474Heard of Tuberculosis or TB. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable is keptstring——
mv474aAir when coughing or sneezing.string——
mv474bSharing utensils.string——
mv474cTouching a person with TB.string——
mv474dTuberculosis spread through food.string——
mv474eSexual contactstring——
mv474fMosquito bitesstring——
mv474gCountry specificstring——
mv474hCountry specificstring——
mv474iCountry specificstring——
mv474jCountry specificstring——
mv474xOtherstring——
mv474zDon't know.string——
mv475Tuberculosis can be cured. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII corestring——
mv476Keep secret when family member gets TB. This question is no longer part of the DHSstring——
mv477Number of injectionsstring——
mv478Injections administered by a health workerstring——
mv479Source for injection by health worker. This question is no longer part of the DHS VIIstring——
mv480Syringe and needle from new, unopened package.string——
mv481Covered by health insurancestring——
mv481aMutual or community organizationstring——
mv481bProvided by employer.string——
mv481cSocial securitystring——
mv481dPrivate or commercial purchased.string——
mv481eCountry specificstring——
mv481fCountry specificstring——
mv481gCountry specificstring——
mv481hCountry specificstring——
mv481xOther Care for children under 18 The questions pertaining to MV482A to MV482C are no longer part of the DHS VII core questring——
mv482aArrange care of biological children.string——
mv482bPrimary caregiverstring——
mv482cArrange care of non-biological.string——
mv483Whether the respondent circumcised.string——
mv483aAge at circumcisionstring——
mv483bWho performed the circumcisionstring——
mv483cPlace where circumcision was done Smoking per week BASE: All men.string——
mv484aAverage number of manufactured cigarettes smoked per weekstring——
mv484bAverage number of hand-rolled cigarettes smoked per weekstring——
mv484cAverage number of kreteks smoked per weekstring——
mv484dAverage number of pipes full of tobacco smoked per weekstring——
mv484eAverage number of cigars, cheroots or cigarillos smoked per weekstring——
mv484fAverage number of water pipe sessions taken per weekstring——
mv484gAverage number of others products per weekstring——
mv484hAverage number of snuff taken by mouth per weekstring——
mv484iAverage number of snuff taken by nose per weekstring——
mv484jAverage number of chewing tobacco taken per weekstring——
mv484kAverage number of betel quid with tobacco per weekstring——
mv484lAverage number of other products per weekstring——
mv501Current marital status of the respondentstring——
mv502Whether the respondent is currently, formerly or never married (or lived with a partner). Currently married includes marstring——
mv503Whether the respondent has been married or lived with a woman once or more than once. BASE: Ever-married men (MV501 <> 0string——
mv504Whether the wife or the partner lives with respondent. BASE: Currently married or in union men (MV502 = 1).string——
mv505The number of wives the respondent currently has. This is the number of wives and live-in partners. BASE: Currently marrstring——
mv507Month of start of first marriage or union (see note on imputed dates)string——
mv508Year of start of first marriage or union (see note on imputed dates). This variable occupies 4 digitsstring——
mv509Century month code of the date of start of first marriage or union (see note on century month codes).string——
mv510Completeness of information for the date of start of the first marriage or union (see note on imputed dates)string——
mv511Age at start of first marriage or union is calculated from the century month code of the date of start of first marriagestring——
mv512Years since start of first marriage or union is calculated from the century month code of the start of first marriage orstring——
mv513Marital duration is actually the number of years elapsed since the start of the first marriage or union until the date ostring——
mv525Age at first sexual intercourse (Respondents who had never had sex are coded 0)string——
mv527Time since the last sexual relations as reported by the respondent: The first digit gives the units in which the respondstring——
mv528Time since last intercourse - grouped. The time since last intercourse after 31 days was grouped into the category 31. Tstring——
mv529Time since last intercourse – imputed: Values are given in number of months. However, in this variable too, the special string——
mv531Age at first sexual intercourse – imputed: This is the same as MV525, except for respondents who reported that their firstring——
mv532Flag variable for inconsistencies found in editing the responses for MV525. 0 No flag 1 Respondent reported string——
mv535Whether the respondent has ever been married or lived with a woman. BASE: Men who are not currently married and not livistring——
mv536Whether the respondent had sex and whether it was during the last 4 weeks (recent sexual activity).string——
mv541Intend to wait until married to have sex. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the varstring——
mv602Fertility preferences.. This variable comes from a single question but recoded later depending on the men’s status. Sterstring——
mv603Preferred waiting time before the birth of another child is created from a single question asking how long from the datestring——
mv604The preferred waiting time to the next birth is grouped into 12-month categories with responses of more than six years cstring——
mv605Desire for more children is a constructed variable classifying respondents who want more children by whether they want tstring——
mv613The ideal number of children that the respondent would have liked to have in his whole life, irrespective of the number string——
mv614This variable groups the preceding variable such that 6 or more children are in one category 6+ and all non-numeric respstring——
mv616This variable records the original response to the question "How long would you like to wait from now before the birth ostring——
mv621Whether the respondent believes his partner wants the same number of children, more children or fewer children than he wstring——
mv627Ideal number of boysstring——
mv628Ideal number of girlsstring——
mv629Ideal number of either sex These three variables should sum to the total ideal number of children given in variables MV6string——
mv631Problem if became pregnant. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable is kept string——
mv633aHusband has STDstring——
mv633bHusband has other womenstring——
mv633cRecent birthstring——
mv633dTired, moodstring——
mv633eCountry specificstring——
mv633fCountry specificstring——
mv633gCountry specific Husband’s rights The questions pertaining to MV634A to MV634D are no longer part of the DHS VII core qustring——
mv634aGet angrystring——
mv634bRefuse financial supportstring——
mv634cUse force for unwanted sexstring——
mv634dHave sex with another womenstring——
mv714Whether the respondent is currently working. BASE: All men.string——
mv714aWhether the respondent has a job or business from which she was absent for leave, illness, vacation, maternity leave, orstring——
mv716Respondent's occupation as collected in the country. Codes are country-specific. BASE: All men.string——
mv717Standardized respondent's occupation groups; agricultural categories also include fishermen, foresters and hunters and astring——
mv719Whether the respondent works for a family member, for someone else or is self-employed. This question is no longer part string——
mv721Works at home or away. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable is kept in thstring——
mv731Whether the respondent worked in the last 12 months. BASE: All men.string——
mv732Whether the respondent works throughout the year, seasonally, or just occasionally. BASE: Men who are currently working string——
mv739Who decides how to spend money. BASE: Currently married or in union men who were paid in cash or in cash and kind (MV502string——
mv740Whether the respondent works on his own land, family land, rented land, or on someone else's land. This question is no lstring——
mv741Type of earnings for workstring——
mv743aOwn health carestring——
mv743bMaking large household purchasesstring——
mv743cMaking household purchases for daily needsstring——
mv743dVisits to family or relativesstring——
mv743eFood to be cooked each daystring——
mv743fDeciding what to do with money wife earnsstring——
mv743gDeciding how many children to have Justification of wife’s beating BASE: All men.string——
mv744aGoes out without telling himstring——
mv744bNeglects the childrenstring——
mv744cArgues with himstring——
mv744dRefuses to have sex with himstring——
mv744eBurns the food Ownership of house/landstring——
mv745aOwns a house alone or jointly BASE: All men.string——
mv745bOwns land alone or jointly BASE: All men.string——
mv745cWhether the respondent’s name is on the title deed for the owned house BASE: Respondents who own a housed alone or jointstring——
mv745dWhether the respondent’s name is on the title deed for the owned land BASE: Respondents who own land alone or jointly (Mstring——
mv747aChildbearing is a woman's concern.string——
mv747bImportant for mother and the child health to get assistance at deliverystring——
mv750Heard of sexually transmitted disease BASE: All men.string——
mv751Whether the respondent has ever heard of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). BASE: All men. Ways to reduce AIDS string——
mv756Whether the respondent believes it is possible for a healthy-looking person to have the AIDS virus. BASE: Men who have hstring——
mv761Whether the respondent used a condom the last time he had sexual intercourse. BASE: Men who had at least 1 sexual partnestring——
mv761bWith other woman (1) BASE: Men who had at least 2 sexual partners during the last 12 months (MV766B > 1).string——
mv761cWith other woman (2) BASE: Men who had at least 3 sexual partners during the last 12 months (MV766B > 2).string——
mv761dFor moneystring——
mv762Place where condom was obtained last timestring——
mv762aBrand name of the condom obtained last time BASE: For MV762 and MV762A is men who used a condom the last time he had sexstring——
mv763aAny STDstring——
mv763bGenital sore or ulcerstring——
mv763cGenital dischargestring——
mv763dCountry specificstring——
mv763eCountry specificstring——
mv763fCountry specificstring——
mv763gCountry specificstring——
mv766aNumber of women other than the wife the respondent had sex with in last 12 months.string——
mv766bNumber of women the respondent had sex with including his wife in last 12 months.string——
mv767aLast partnerstring——
mv767bOther partner (1)string——
mv767cOther partner (2)string——
mv768aLast partnerstring——
mv768bOther partner (1)string——
mv768cOther partner (2)string——
mv769Could get a male condomstring——
mv769aCould get a female condomstring——
mv770Seek advice for an STDstring——
mv770aGovernmental hospitalstring——
mv770bCountry specific public sectorstring——
mv770cCountry specific public sectorstring——
mv770dCountry specific public sectorstring——
mv770eCountry specific public sectorstring——
mv770fCountry specific public sectorstring——
mv770gCountry specific public sectorstring——
mv770hCountry specific public sectorstring——
mv770iCountry specific public sectorstring——
mv770jCountry specific public sectorstring——
mv770kPrivate hospital/clinic/doctorstring——
mv770lCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
mv770mCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
mv770nCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
mv770oCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
mv770pCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
mv770qCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
mv770rCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
mv770sCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
mv770tCountry specific otherstring——
mv770uCountry specific otherstring——
mv770vCountry specific otherstring——
mv770wCountry specific otherstring——
mv770xSeek advice other Mother to child AIDS transmission knowledge BASE: For MV774A, MV774B and MV774C is respondents who heastring——
mv774aDuring pregnancystring——
mv774bDuring deliverystring——
mv774cBy breastfeedingstring——
mv775Knows someone who has or died of AIDS. BASE: Respondents who have heard of AIDS (MV751 = 1).string——
mv777Allowed to keep AIDS infection secret. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variabstring——
mv777aBe ashamed if someone in the family had HIV BASE: Respondents who have heard of AIDS (MV751 = 1).string——
mv778Willing to care for relative with AIDS. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variastring——
mv779Person with AIDS allowed to continue teaching. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but thstring——
mv780Should children be taught about condoms. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the varistring——
mv781Ever been tested BASE: All menstring——
mv783Know a place to get AIDS test BASE: Men who heard of AIDS (MV751 = 1).string——
mv784aGovernmental hospitalstring——
mv784bCountry specific public sectorstring——
mv784cCountry specific public sectorstring——
mv784dCountry specific public sectorstring——
mv784eCountry specific public sectorstring——
mv784fCountry specific public sectorstring——
mv784gCountry specific public sectorstring——
mv784hCountry specific public sectorstring——
mv784iCountry specific public sectorstring——
mv784jCountry specific public sectorstring——
mv784kPrivate hospital, clinic or doctorstring——
mv784lCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
mv784mCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
mv784nCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
mv784oCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
mv784pCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
mv784qCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
mv784rCountry specific private medical sectorstring——
mv784sCountry specific otherstring——
mv784tCountry specific otherstring——
mv784uCountry specific otherstring——
mv784vCountry specific otherstring——
mv784xOtherstring——
mv785Heard about other STDs BASE: All menstring——
mv791Have ever paid anyone in exchange for sex BASE: Men who had sexual intercourse (MV525 <> 0). Paid sex last 12 monthsstring——
mv793Paid for sex. If respondent had sex with a prostitute then it is assumed to be paid. BASE: All menstring——
mv793aCondom used during last time respondent paid for sex BASE: Men who paid for sex in last 12 months (MV793 = 1).string——
mv793bCondom used every time respondent paid someone in exchange for having sexual intercourse. BASE: Men who used a condom dustring——
mv820Condom use at first sexual intercourse. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variastring——
mv822Wife justified asking husband to use condom if he has an STI. BASE: All men Get AIDSstring——
mv823Can get AIDS by witchcraft or supernatural means. BASE: Men who heard of AIDS (MV751 = 1).string——
mv824Drugs to avoid AIDS transmission to baby during pregnancy. BASE: Men who heard of AIDS and know HIV can be transmitted dstring——
mv825Would buy vegetables from vendor with AIDS. BASE: Men who heard of AIDS (MV751 = 1). AIDS Teststring——
mv826The last time the respondent was tested. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the varistring——
mv826aMonths ago most recent HIV test BASE: Men who have been tested for HIV (MV781 = 1).string——
mv827Last test was on your own, offered or required. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but tstring——
mv828Did get results for last test. BASE: Men who have been tested for HIV (MV781 = 1).string——
mv829Place were last AIDS test was taken. BASE: Men who have been tested for HIV (MV781 = 1). Time since last intercoursestring——
mv832bWith next to last sexual partner BASE: Men who had at least 2 sexual partners during the last 12 months (MV766B > 1).string——
mv832cWith second to last sexual partner BASE: Men who had at least 3 sexual partners during the last 12 months (MV766B > 2). string——
mv833aWith last sex partner BASE: Men who had at least 1 sexual partner during the last 12 months, and used a condom during sestring——
mv833bWith next to last sex partner BASE: Men who had at least 2 sexual partners during the last 12 months, and used a condom string——
mv833cWith second to last sex partner BASE: Men who had at least 3 sexual partners during the last 12 months, and used a condostring——
mv834aAge of most recent partner BASE: Men who had at least 1 sexual partner during the last 12 months (MV766B > 0).string——
mv834bAge of 2nd to most recent partner BASE: Men who had at least 2 sexual partners during the last 12 months (MV766B > 1).string——
mv834cAge of 3rd to most recent partner BASE: Men who had at least 3 sexual partners during the last 12 months (MV766B > 2). Astring——
mv835aLast timestring——
mv835bNext to last timestring——
mv835cSecond to last timestring——
mv836Total lifetime number of sexual partners. BASE: Men who had sexual intercourse (MV525 <> 0).string——
mv837Heard of drugs to help infected people to live longer. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnairestring——
mv844Health servicesstring——
mv845Social eventsstring——
mv846Verbally abused.string——
mv847People with AIDS should be ashamed of themselves.string——
mv848People with AIDS should be blamed for bringing disease to community.string——
mv849Children 12-14 should wait for sex until marriage. Attitudes towards life sex for men and Women The questions pertainingstring——
mv851aYoung men should wait for sex until marriage.string——
mv851bMost young men wait for sex until marriage.string——
mv851cUnmarried sexually active men should only having sex with one partner.string——
mv851dMost unmarried sexually active men have only one partner.string——
mv851eMarried men should only have sex with their wives.string——
mv851fMost married men only have sex with their wives.string——
mv851gYoung women should wait for sex until marriage.string——
mv851hMost young women wait for sex until marriage.string——
mv851iUnmarried sexually active women should have only one partner.string——
mv851jMost unmarried sexually active women have only one partner.string——
mv851kMarried women should only have sex with their husbands.string——
mv851lMost married women only have sex with their husbands.string——
mv852aHow long ago first had sex with most recent partner BASE: Men who had at least 1 sexual partner during the last 12 monthstring——
mv852bHow long ago first had sex with 2nd most recent partner BASE: Men who had at least 2 sexual partners during the last 12 string——
mv852cHow long ago first had sex with 3rd most recent partner BASE: Men who had at least 3 sexual partners during the last 12 string——
mv853aTimes in last 12 months had sex with most recent partner BASE: Men who had at least 1 sexual partner during the last 12 string——
mv853bTimes in last 12 months had sex with 2nd most recent partner BASE: Men who had at least 2 sexual partners during the lasstring——
mv853cTimes in last 12 months had sex with 3rd most recent partner BASE: Men who had at least 3 sexual partners during the lasstring——
mv854aConcurrent sexual partners BASE: Men who had at least 2 sexual partners during the last 12 months (MV766B > 1).string——
mv854bCumulative concurrent sexual partners BASE: Men who had at least 2 sexual partners during the last 12 months (MV766B > 1string——
mv856Knowledge and use of HIV test kits BASE: Respondents who have heard of AIDS (MV751 = 1).string——
mv857aWhether the respondent thinks children with HIV should be allowed to attend school with children not having HIV BASE: Restring——
mv857bWhether the respondent thinks that people hesitate to take an HIV test because they are afraid of how other people will string——
mv857cWhether people talk badly about people with or believed to have HIV BASE: Respondents who have heard of AIDS (MV751 = 1)string——
mv857dWhether people with HIV or believed to have HIV lose the respect of other people BASE: Respondents who have heard of AIDstring——
mv858Whether the respondent fear to get HIV from contact with salvia of a person with HIV BASE: Respondents who have heard ofstring——
mg100Ever heard of female circumcision.string——
mg101Ever heard of genital cutting (probed). Benefits of circumcision BASE: Ever heard of circumcision (MG100 = 1 or MG101 = string——
mg117aCleanliness/hygienestring——
mg117bSocial acceptancestring——
mg117cBetter marriage prospectsstring——
mg117dPreserve virginity, prevent premarital sexstring——
mg117eMore sexual pleasure for menstring——
mg117fReligious approvalstring——
mg117gCountry specificstring——
mg117hCountry specificstring——
mg117iCountry specificstring——
mg117jCountry specificstring——
mg117xOtherstring——
mg117yNo benefitstring——
mg118Circumcision is required by religionstring——
mg119Circumcision should continue or be stoppedstring——
cciq71= CCIR71 : DHS-VII Corestring——
qh100= HV801 : Start of household interviewstring——
qh100h= in HV801 : Start of household interview (hour)string——
qh100m= in HV801 : Start of household interview (minutes)string——
qchl22= CHL0 (RECHCHL) : Total de jure children 5-14 in household for child laborstring——
qhsec01= RECH1 : Household Schedulestring——
qh01= HVIDX : Line number of memberstring——
qh03= HV101 : Relationship to headstring——
qh04= HV104 : Sex of household memberstring——
qh05= HV102 : Usual residentstring——
qh06= HV103 : Slept last nightstring——
qh07= HV105 : Age of household membersstring——
qh08= HV140 : Marital statusstring——
qh09= HV115 : Eligibility for female interviewstring——
qh10= HV118 : Eligibility for male interviewstring——
qh11= HV117 : Child's eligibility for interviewstring——
qh12= HV111 : Mother alivestring——
qh13= HV112 : Mother's line numberstring——
qh14= HV113 : Father alivestring——
qh15= HV114 : Father's line numberstring——
qh16= in HV106 : Ever attended schoolstring——
qh17a= in HV106 : Level of education attendedstring——
qh17b= HV107 : Highest grade completedstring——
qh18= HV121 : Attend school current yearstring——
qh19a= in HV122 : Level of education attendingstring——
qh19b= HV123 : Grade attendingstring——
qh20= HV140 : Birth certificate / registeredstring——
qh26= HDIS1 (RECHDIS) : Wear glasses or contact lensesstring——
qh27= in HDIS2 (RECHDIS) : Have difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses or contact : lensesstring——
qh28= in HDIS2 (RECHDIS) : Have difficulty seeing (don't wear glasses)string——
qh29= HDIS3 (RECHDIS) : Wear a hearing aid 2string——
qh30= in HDIS4 (RECHDIS) : Have difficulty hearing even when using a hearing aidstring——
qh31= in HDIS4 (RECHDIS) : Have difficulty hearing (don't wear hearing aid)string——
qh32= HDIS5 (RECHDIS) : Have difficulty communicating using usual languagestring——
qh33= HDIS6 (RECHDIS) : Have difficulty remembering or concentratingstring——
qh34= HDIS7 (RECHDIS) : Have difficulty walking or climbing stepsstring——
qh35= HDIS8 (RECHDIS) : Have difficulty washing all over or dressingstring——
ml07i= HML16 (RECHMH) : Age corrected from individual questionnairestring——
ml07f= HML17 (RCHHMH) : Flag for age correctionstring——
qhsec02= RECH2 : Household Characteristicsstring——
qh101= HV201 : Source of drinking waterstring——
qh102= HV202 : Source of non-drinking waterstring——
qh103= HV235 : Location of source for waterstring——
qh104= HV204 : Time to water and back (in minutes)string——
qh106= HV201A : Water not available for at least a daystring——
qh107= HV237 : Do anything to water to make safe to drinkstring——
qh108= HV237A-HV237Z : What do you usually do to make water safe to drinkstring——
qh109= HV205 : Type of toilet facilitystring——
qh110= HV225 : Share facilities with other householdsstring——
qh111= HV238 : Number of households sharing toiletstring——
qh112= HV238A : Location of toilet facilitystring——
qh113= HV226 : Type of cooking fuelstring——
qh114= HV241 : Food cooked in the house / in separate building / outdoorsstring——
qh115= HV242 : Household has separate room used as kitchenstring——
qh116= HV216 : Number of rooms used for sleepingstring——
qh117= HV246 : Livestock, herds or farm animalsstring——
qh118a= HV246A : Cattlestring——
qh118b= HV246B : Cows / bullsstring——
qh118c= HV246C : Horses / donkeys / mulesstring——
qh118d= HV246D : Goatsstring——
qh118e= HV246E : Sheepstring——
qh118f= HV246F : Chickens / poultrystring——
qh119= HV244 : Own land usable for agriculturestring——
qh120= HV245 : Hectares for agricultural landstring——
qh121a= HV206 : Electricitystring——
qh121b= HV207 : Radiostring——
qh121c= HV208 : Televisionstring——
qh121d= HV221 : Non mobile telephonestring——
qh121e= HV243E : Computerstring——
qh121f= HV209 : Refrigeratorstring——
qh122a= HV243B : Watchstring——
qh122b= HV243A : Mobile phonestring——
qh122c= HV210 : Bicyclestring——
qh122d= HV211 : Motorcycle or Scooterstring——
qh122e= HV243C : Animal-drawn cartstring——
qh122f= HV212 : Car or Truckstring——
qh122g= HV243D : Boat with a motorstring——
qh123= HV247 : Bank accountstring——
qh124= HV252 : Frequency of smoking inside housestring——
qh125= HV252 : Interior walls sprayed against mosquitos in past 12 monthsstring——
qh126= HV253A-HV253Z : Dwelling sprayed by government, private company or NGOstring——
qh127= HV227 : Mosquito nets used while sleepingstring——
qh128= HML1/HML1A : Number of mosquito netsstring——
qhsec03= RECHML : Mosquito Netsstring——
qhcol3= HMLIDX : Net numberstring——
qh129= HML3 : Shown Netstring——
qh130= HML4 : How long ago household obtain netstring——
qh131= HML7 : Net brand/typestring——
qh132= HML8 : Net ever soaked or dipped in chemical since obtainedstring——
qh133= HML9 : How long ago was net last soaked or dippedstring——
qh134= HML22 : Obtained net from campaign, antenatal or immunization visitstring——
qh135= HML23 : Place where net was obtainedstring——
qh136= HML21 : Anyone sleep under this net last nightstring——
qh137a= HMLA : Line No. of 1st person who slept under netstring——
qh137b= HMLB : Line No. of 2nd person who slept under netstring——
qh137c= HMLC : Line No. of 3rd person who slept under netstring——
qh137d= HMLD : Line No. of 4th person who slept under net 3string——
qhsec04= RECH2 : Additional household characteristicsstring——
qh139= HV230A : Observed place for handwashingstring——
qh140= HV230B : Observed presence of waterstring——
qh141= HV232, HV232B, HV232Y : Observed presence of soap/detergent, ash/mud/sand or nonestring——
qh142= HV213 : Main material of floorstring——
qh143= HV215 : Main roof materialstring——
qh144= HV214 : Main wall materialstring——
qh145= HV234 : Test salt for Iodinestring——
qh146= HV802 (RECH0) : End of household interviewstring——
qh146h= in HV802 (RECH0) : End of household interview (hour)string——
qh146m= in HV802 (RECH0) : End of household interview (minutes)string——
qbsec01= RECH6 : Height, Weight, Hemoglobin (children)string——
qb102= HC0 : Line number in household schedulestring——
qb103d= HC16 : Day of birthstring——
qb103m= imputed HC30 used : Month of birthstring——
qb103y= imputed HC31 used : Year of birthstring——
qb104= not used : Child born in 2010-2015 or laterstring——
qb105= HC2, in HC13 : Weight in kilogramsstring——
qb106= HC3, in HC13 : Height in centimetersstring——
qb107= HC15 : Lying or standingstring——
qb108= HC21 : Fieldworker number (measurer)string——
qb109= not used : Born in month of interview or previous 5 monthsstring——
qb110= HC51 : Line no. of parent/caretakerstring——
qb112= HC52 : Read consent statement for anemia teststring——
qb113= HC53, in HC55 : Hemoglobin level (g/dl)string——
qcpc1= HC4 : Ht/A Percentilestring——
qcsd1= HC5 : Ht/A Standard deviationsstring——
qcrm1= HC6 : Ht/A Percent of ref. medianstring——
qcpc2= HC7 : Wt/A Percentilestring——
qcsd2= HC8 : Wt/A Standard deviationsstring——
qcrm2= HC9 : Wt/A Percent of ref. medianstring——
qcpc3= HC10 : Wt/Ht Percentilestring——
qcsd3= HC11 : Wt/Ht Standard deviationsstring——
qcrm3= HC12 : Wt/Ht Percent of ref. medianstring——
qced1= HC61 : Mother's highest educational levelstring——
qced2= HC62 : Mother's highest grade at that levelstring——
qced3= HC68 : Mother's highest educ. level (CS for prel. & final report)string——
qcsd4= HC70 : Ht/A Standard deviations (according to WHO)string——
qcsd5= HC71 : Wt/A Standard deviations (according to WHO)string——
qcsd6= HC72 : Wt/Ht Standard deviations (according to WHO)string——
qcsd7= HC73 : BMI Standard deviations (according to WHO)string——
qbsec02= RECH5 : Height, Weight, Hemoglobin (women)string——
qb202= HA0 : Line number in household schedulestring——
qb203= HA50 : Under age 18string——
qb204= HA60 : Marital statusstring——
qb205= HA2, in HA13 : Weight in kilogramsstring——
qb206= HA3, in HA13 : Height in centimetersstring——
qb207= HA21 : Fieldworker numberstring——
qb211= in HA52 : Consent from respondent (Anemia)string——
qb211a= HA54 : Currently pregnantstring——
qb213= in HA61 : Consent from respondent (HIV)string——
qb213a= in HA70 : Fieldworker number HIV teststring——
qb215= HA64 : Consent for additional tests from respondentstring——
qb216= HA51 : Line no. of parent/caretakerstring——
qb218= in HA52 : Consent statement from parent/caretaker (Anemia)string——
qb220= in HA52 : Consent statement from minor respondent (Anemia)string——
qb220a= HA54 : Currently pregnantstring——
qb222= in HA61 : Consent statement parent/caretaker (HIV)string——
qb222a= in HA70 : Fieldworker number HIV teststring——
qb224= in HA61 : Consent statement minor respondent (HIV)string——
qb226= in HA64 : Consent statement parent/caretaker (additional tests)string——
qb228= in HA64 : Consent statement minor respondent (additional tests)string——
qb231= HA53, in HA55 : Hemoglobin level (g/dl)string——
qb232= HA62, in HA63 : Blood sample ID numberstring——
qwpc1= HA4 : Ht/A Percentile (resp.)string——
qwsd1= HA5 : Ht/A Standard deviations (resp.)string——
qwrm1= HA6 : Ht/A Percent ref. median (resp.)string——
qwrm3= HA12 : Wt/Ht Percent ref. median (DHS)string——
qwrm4= HA12A : Wt/Ht Percent ref. median (Foggarty)string——
qwrm5= HA12B : Wt/Ht Percent ref. median (WHO)string——
qwsd3= HA11 : Wt/Ht Std deviations(resp) DHSstring——
qwed1= HA66 : Woman's highest educational levelstring——
qwed2= HA67 : Woman's highest year of educationstring——
qwed3= HA68 : Highest educ. level (CS for prel. & final report)string——
qbsec03= RECHMA : Height, Weight, Hemoglobin (men)string——
qb302= HB0 : Line number in household schedulestring——
qb303= HB50 : Under age 18string——
qb304= HB60 : Marital statusstring——
qb305= HB2, in HB13 : Weight in kilogramsstring——
qb306= HB3, in HB13 : Height in centimetersstring——
qb307= HB21 : Fieldworker number for Height and Weightstring——
qb311= in HB52 : Consent statement adult respondent (Anemia)string——
qb313= HB61 : Consent statement adult respondent (HIV)string——
qb313a= in HB70 : Fieldworker number for HIVstring——
qb315= in HB64 : Consent statement adult respondent (Additional tests)string——
qb316= HB51 : Line no. of parent/caretakerstring——
qb318= in HB52 : Consent statement adult/caretaker (Anemia)string——
qb320= in HB52 : Consent statement to minor respondent (Anemia)string——
qb322= in HB61 : Consent statement adult/caretaker (HIV)string——
qb322a= in HB70 : Fieldworker number for HIVstring——
qb324= in HB61 : Consent statement to minor respondent (HIV)string——
qb326= in HB64 : Consent statement adult/caretaker (Additional tests)string——
qb328= in HB64 : Consent statement minor adult (Additional tests)string——
qb331= HB53, in HB55 : Hemoglobin level (g/dl)string——
qb332= HB62, in HB63 : Blood sample ID numberstring——
qmpc1= HB4 : Ht/A Percentile (resp.)string——
qmsd1= HB5 : Ht/A Standard deviations (resp) 5string——
qmrm1= HB6 : Ht/A Percent ref. median (resp)string——
qmrm3= HB12 : Wt/Ht Percent ref. median (DHS)string——
qmrm4= HB12A : Wt/Ht Percent ref. median (Foggarty)string——
qmrm5= HB12B : Wt/Ht Percent ref. median (WHO)string——
qmsd3= HB11 : Wt/Ht Std deviations (resp) DHSstring——
qmed1= HB66 : Man's highest educational levelstring——
qmed2= HB67 : Man's highest year of educationstring——
qmed3= HB68 : Highest educ. level (CS for prel. & final report)string——
qwsec01= REC11 : Respondent's Backgroundstring——
q101h= in V801-REC81 : Start of interview (hour)string——
q101m= in V801-REC81 : Start of interview (minutes)string——
q102= V104 : Time lived in current place of residencestring——
q103= V105 : Previous place of residencestring——
q104= V105A : Province/state lived before moved to place of interviewstring——
q105m= V109 : Month of birthstring——
q105y= V010 : Year of birthstring——
q106= V012 : Current age of respondentstring——
q107= in V106 : Ever attended schoolstring——
q108= in V106 : Highest educational levelstring——
q109= V107 : Highest grade at that levelstring——
q111= V155 : Sentence readstring——
q113= V157 : Reads newspaper or magazinestring——
q114= V158 : Listens to radiostring——
q115= V159 : Watches televisionstring——
q116= V169A : Own a mobile telephonestring——
q117= V169B : Use mobile telephone for financial transactionsstring——
q118= V170 : Have a bank or other financial accountstring——
q119= in V171A : Have ever used the internetstring——
q120= in V171A : Have used the internet last 12 monthsstring——
q121= V171B : How often used internet the last monthstring——
q122= V130 : Religionstring——
q123= V131 : Ethnicitystring——
q124= V167 : Times away from home for one or more nights in last 12 monthsstring——
q125= V168 : Away for more than one month in last 12 months 6string——
q105c= V011 : Date of birth (CMC)string——
q105f= V014 : Date flag for A105Cstring——
qwsec2a= REC22 : Reproductionstring——
q201= not used : Ever given birthstring——
q202= not used : Sons or daughters living withstring——
q203a= V202 : Sons at homestring——
q203b= V203 : Daughters at homestring——
q204= not used : Sons or daughters living awaystring——
q205a= V204 : Sons living elsewherestring——
q205b= V205 : Daughters living elsewherestring——
q206= not used : Sons or daughters who diedstring——
q207a= V206 : Boys who diedstring——
q207b= V207 : Girls who diedstring——
q208= V208 : Total children ever bornstring——
qwsec2b= REC21 : Birth Historystring——
q212= BIDX : Line number of childstring——
q213= B4 : Sex of childstring——
q214= B0 : Single or Multiple Birthstring——
q215d= B17 : Day of birthstring——
q215m= B1 : Month of birthstring——
q215y= B2 : Year of birthstring——
q216= B5 : Child is still alivestring——
q217= B8 : Current age of childstring——
q218= B9 : Child living with respondentstring——
q219= B16 : Line number in the householdstring——
q220u= in B6 : Age at death (unit)string——
q220n= in B6 : Age at death (number)string——
q221= B15 : Live birth between birthsstring——
q215c= B3 : Date of birth of child (CMC)string——
q215f= B10 : Date flag for Q216Cstring——
q220c= B7 : Age at death months (imputed)string——
q220f= B13 : Date flag for Q220Cstring——
qwsec2c= REC82 : Calendarstring——
qwsec2d= REC22 : Reproduction (continued)string——
q222= V237 : Birth between last & interviewstring——
q224= V208-5 years, V238-3 years : Births since January 200?string——
q226= V213 : Currently pregnantstring——
q227= V214 : Duration of current pregnancystring——
q228= in V225 : Wanted pregnancy at that timestring——
q229= in V225 : Wanted baby later or not at allstring——
q230= V228 : Miscarriage, abortion, or stillbirthstring——
q231m= V229 : Month pregnancy endedstring——
q231y= V230 : Year pregnancy endedstring——
q234= V233 : Months pregnant when pregnancy endedstring——
q235= V234 : Other such pregnanciesstring——
q237= V239 : Terminated pregnancy before 200?string——
q238m= V240 : Month of last non-live birth pregnancy before 200?string——
q238y= V241 : Year of last non-live birth pregnancy before 200?string——
q239u= in V215 : Time since last period (unit)string——
q239n= in V215 : Time since last period (number)string——
q240= in V217 : Knowledge of fertile periodstring——
q241= in V217 : When is the fertile periodstring——
q242= V244 : After birth woman can get pregnant before period returnsstring——
q226c= from V214 : Date of conception (CMC)string——
q227f= V223 : Date flag for Q226Cstring——
q238f= V227 : Flag for A238 7string——
qwsec3a= REC31 : Contraceptive Knowledge & Usestring——
q301n= V304A : Contraceptive methodstring——
q301= V304 : Heard of methodstring——
qwsec3b= REC32 : Contraceptive Practicestring——
q303= in V312 : Currently using any methodstring——
q304= in V312, V307 (REC31) : Current contraceptive methodstring——
q305= V323 : Brand name of pills reportedstring——
q306= V323A : Brand name of condoms reportedstring——
q307= V326, V3A07 : Where sterilization took placestring——
q308m= in V315 : Month sterilization was performedstring——
q308y= in V316 : Year sterilization was performedstring——
q309m= in V315 : Month started using current methodstring——
q309y= in V316 : Year started using current methodstring——
q314= V302A : Ever used a contraceptive methodstring——
q315= filter V312 : Current contraceptive method (filter)string——
q316= in V3A07 : Source for current method when startedstring——
q317= filter V312 : Current contraceptive methodstring——
q318= in V3A02 : Told about side effectsstring——
q319= in V3A02 : Told about side effects when sterilizedstring——
q320= V3A03 : Told about side effects by health or FP workerstring——
q321= V3A04 : Told how to deal with side effectsstring——
q322= V3A05 : Told about other FP methodsstring——
q323= V3A06 : Told about other FP methods by health or FP workerstring——
q324= filter V312 : Current contraceptive method (filter)string——
q325= in V326 : Last source of FPstring——
q326= in V3A00A:V3A00Z : Know source for FPstring——
q327= V393 : Visited by FP worker in last 12 monthsstring——
q329= V394 : Visited health facility in last 12 monthsstring——
q330= V395 : At health facility, told of FPstring——
q304n= V312 : Current contraceptive method (major method)string——
q309c= V317 : Date started using current method (CMC)string——
q309f= V318 : Date flag for A309Cstring——
qwsec04= REC41 : Pregnancy and Postnatal Carestring——
q403= MIDX = BIDX : Line numberstring——
q405= in M10 : Wanted to get pregnantstring——
q406= in M10 : Time wanted pregnancystring——
q407u= in M11 : Time would have waited (unit)string——
q407n= in M11 : Time would have waited (number) Q406Nstring——
q408= in M2A:M2Y : Received antenatal care for pregnancystring——
q409= in M2A:M2Y : Provider of antenatal care for pregnancystring——
q410= M57A:M57X : Where antenatal care took placestring——
q411= M13 : Months pregnant at first antenatal visitstring——
q412= M14 : Antenatal visits during pregnancystring——
q413a= M42C : Antenatal care: Blood pressurestring——
q413b= M42D : Antenatal care: Urine samplestring——
q413c= M42E : Antenatal care: Blood samplestring——
q414= in M1 : Tetanus injection during pregnancystring——
q415= in M1 : Number of tetanus injectionsstring——
q417= in M1A : Tetanus injections before pregnancystring——
q418= in M1A : Number of tetanus injections before pregnancystring——
q419= M1D : Years ago received last tetanus injection before pregnancystring——
q420= M45 : Given iron tablets during pregnancystring——
q421= M46 : Number of days took iron tabletsstring——
q422= M60 : Drugs for intestinal parasitesstring——
q423= M49A : During pregnancy took SP/Fansidar for malariastring——
q424= ML1 (RECML) : How many times took SP/Fansidar for malariastring——
q425= ML2 (RECML) : Took SP/Fansidar during antenatal visit (Malaria)string——
q426= M18 : Size of child at birthstring——
q427= M19A : Weighed at birthstring——
q428u= in M19 : Weight at birth (unit)string——
q428n= in M19 : Weight in Kilograms (number)string——
q429= M3A:M3N : Assistance at deliverystring——
q430= M15 : Place of deliverystring——
q431u= in M61 : Time spent at place of delivery (unit)string——
q431n= in M61 : Time spent at place of delivery (number)string——
q432= M17 : Delivery by caesarean sectionstring——
q433= M17A : Timing of decision on caesarean sectionstring——
q434= in M77 : Child was put on chest immediately after birth 8string——
q434a= in M77 : Child skin touched respondent bare skinstring——
q435= M62 : Postnatal check before dischargestring——
q436u= in M63 : Time first postnatal check respondent after delivery in : facility (unit)string——
q436n= in M63 : Time first postnatal check respondent after delivery in : facility (number)string——
q437= M64 : Person performing 1st postnatal checkup at place of deliverystring——
q438= M74 : First postnatal check on child in facilitystring——
q439u= in M75 : Time first postnatal check on child in facility (unit)string——
q439n= in M75 : Time first postnatal check on child in facility (number)string——
q440= M76 : Person giving postnatal care to child in facilitystring——
q441= in M66 : Checkup after discharge from place of deliverystring——
q442u= in M67 : Time checkup on respondent after discharge (unit)string——
q442n= in M67 : Time checkup on respondent after discharge (number)string——
q443= M68 : Person giving checkup on respondent after dischargestring——
q444= M69 : Place of checkup on respondent after dischargestring——
q445= M70 : Postnatal checkup on child within 2 months of dischargestring——
q446u= in M71 : Time postnatal checkup of child within 2 months of discharge : (unit)string——
q446n= in M71 : Time postnatal checkup of child within 2 months of discharge : (number)string——
q447= M72 : Person giving postnatal check on child within 2 months of : dischargestring——
q448= M73 : Place first postnatal checkup on child within 2 months of : dischargestring——
q449= M66 : Respondent received postnatal check after home deliverystring——
q450u= in M67 : Time respondent received postnatal check after home delivery : (unit)string——
q450n= in M67 : Time respondent received postnatal check after home delivery : (number)string——
q451= M68 : Person giving postnatal check on respondent after home : deliverystring——
q452= M69 : Place postnatal check on respondent after home deliverystring——
q453= M70 : Child received postnatal check after home deliverystring——
q454u= in M71 : Time postnatal checkup of child after home delivery (unit)string——
q454n= in M71 : Time postnatal checkup of child after home delivery (number)string——
q455= M72 : Person giving postnatal check on child after home deliverystring——
q456= M73 : Place postnatal check on child after home deliverystring——
q457a= M78A : During first 2 days, health care provider examined the cordstring——
q457b= M78B : During first 2 days, health care provider examined temperaturestring——
q457c= M78C : During first 2 days, health care provider examined signsstring——
q457d= M78E : During first 2 days, health care provider counseled : breastfeedingstring——
q457e= M78E : During first 2 days, health care provider observed : breastfeedingstring——
q458= in M6, M7 : Period returnedstring——
q459= in M6, M7 : Period returned between birthsstring——
q460= in M6, M7 : Months without a periodstring——
q462= in M8, M9 : Begun to have sexual intercoursestring——
q463= in M8, M9 : Months without sexual intercoursestring——
q464= in M4, M5 : Ever breastfedstring——
q466u= in M34 : When child put to breast (Unit)string——
q466n= in M34 : When child put to breast (Number)string——
q467= M55 : Fluid other than breast milk after first 3 daysstring——
q469= M4 : Still breastfeedingstring——
q470= M38 : Drink in a bottle with nipplestring——
q460f= M28 : Flag for amenorrheastring——
q463f= M29 : Flag for abstinencestring——
q466f= M27 : Flag for breastfeedingstring——
qwsec5= REC43 : Health and Vaccinationsstring——
q502= HIDX = BIDX : Line number in birth historystring——
q504= in H1, in H1A : Has vaccination cardstring——
q505= in H1 : Ever had vaccination cardstring——
q507= in H1, in H1A : Observation of vaccination cardstring——
q508b= H2 : BCG datestring——
d508b= H2D : BCG daystring——
m508b= H2M : BCG monthstring——
y508b= H2Y : BCG yearstring——
q508h= H50 : Hepatitis B at birth datestring——
d508h= H50D : Hepatitis B at birth day 9string——
m508h= H50M : Hepatitis B at birth monthstring——
y508h= H50Y : Hepatitis B at birth yearstring——
q508v= H33 : Most recent Vitamin A datestring——
d508v= H33D : Most recent Vitamin A daystring——
m508v= H33M : Most recent Vitamin A monthstring——
y508v= H33Y : Most recent Vitamin A yearstring——
q510= filter : Other vaccination not recordedstring——
q511= H10 : Ever receive vaccinationsstring——
q512= in H2 : BCG vaccinationstring——
q513= in H50 : Hepatitis B vaccinationstring——
q514= in H0, H4, H6, H8 : Polio vaccine 10string——
q515= in H0, H4, H6, H8 : When first polio was givenstring——
q516= in H4, H6, H8 : Number of Polio vaccinationsstring——
q517= in H3, H5, H7 : Pentavalent vaccinationstring——
q518= in H3, H5, H7 : Number of Pentavalent vaccinationsstring——
q519= in H54, H55, H56 : Pneumococcal vaccinationstring——
q520= in H54, H55, H56 : Number of Pneumococcal vaccinationsstring——
q521= in H57, H58, H59 : Rotavirus vaccinationstring——
q522= in H57, H58, H59 : Number of Rotavirus vaccinationsstring——
q523= in H9, H9A : Measles vaccinationstring——
q524= in H9, H9A : Number of Measles vaccinationsstring——
q525a= H80A : Given micronutrient powder in last 7 daysstring——
q525c= H80B : Given plumpy nuts in last 7 daysstring——
qwsec06a= REC41 (cont.) : Child health and nutritionstring——
q603= MIDX = BIDX : Line number in birth historystring——
q605= H34 : Vitamin-A dose within last 6 monthsstring——
q606= H42 : Taking iron pills, sprinkles or syrup in last 7 daysstring——
q607= H43 : Drugs for intestinal parasites in last 6 monthsstring——
q608= H11 : Diarrhea in last 2 weeksstring——
q609= H38 : Drinking pattern with diarrhea (including breast milk)string——
q610= H39 : Eating pattern with diarrheastring——
q611= in H12A:H12Z : Sought treatment for diarrheastring——
q612= in H12A:H12Z : Where sought treatmentstring——
q614= H44A : First advice or treatment for diarrheastring——
q615a= H13 : Fluid from ORS Packetstring——
q615b= H13B : Pre-packaged ORS liquidstring——
q615c= H14 : Home-made fluidstring——
q615d= H15E : Zincstring——
q616= H21A : Anything else to treat diarrheastring——
q617= H15, H15A:H15M, H20 : Given to treat diarrheastring——
q618= H22 : Fever in last 2 weeksstring——
q619= H47 : Blood taken from finger or heel for testingstring——
q620= H31 : Cough in last 2 weeksstring——
q621= H31B : Breathe faster with short, fast breathsstring——
q622= H31C : Problem in the chest or blocked or running nosestring——
q624= in H32A:H32Z : Sought advice/treatment for fever/coughstring——
q625= in H32A:H32Z : Where sought advice/treatmentstring——
q627= H46A : First advice or treatment for fever/coughstring——
q628= H46B : Days after illness sought advice or treatment for : fever/coughstring——
q629= in H37A:H37Z or ML13A:ML13 : Any drugs for fever/coughstring——
q630= in H37A:H37Z or ML13A:ML13 : Drugs for fever/coughstring——
q633= ML20A (RECML) : How long after fever started did first take Artemisinin : combination therapystring——
q635= ML15A (RECML) : How long after fever started did first take SP/Fansidarstring——
q637= ML16A (RECML) : How long after fever started did first take Chloroquinestring——
q639= ML17A (RECML) : How long after fever started did first take Amodiaquinestring——
q641= ML18A (RECML) : How long after fever started did first take Quininestring——
q643= ML25A (RECML) : How long after fever started did first take Artusunatestring——
q645= ML23A (RECML) : How long after fever started did first take other antimalarialstring——
qwsec6b= REC42 : Child health and nutrition (cont.)string——
q648= V416 : Ever heard of ORS productstring——
q650a= V409 : Child drank plain waterstring——
q650b= V410 : Child drank juice or juice drinksstring——
q650c= V412C : Child drank clear brothstring——
q650d= V411 : Child drank milk e.g. tinned, powdered, or fresh animal milkstring——
q650e= V411A : Child drank commercially produced infant formulastring——
q650f= V413 : Child drank any other liquidsstring——
q650g= V414V : Child ate yogurtstring——
q650h= V412A : Child ate commercially fortified cereal (baby food)string——
q650i= V414E : Child ate bread, rice, noodles, or foods made from grainsstring——
q650j= V414I : Child ate pumpkin, carrots, squash or sweet potatoes that are : yellow or orange insidestring——
q650k= V414F : Child ate white potatoes, white yams, manioc, cassava, or : any other foods made from roostring——
q650l= V414J : Child ate any dark green, leafy vegetables 11string——
q650m= V414K : Child ate ripe mangoes, papayas or other vitamin A rich fruitsstring——
q650n= V414L : Child ate any other fruits and vegetablesstring——
q650o= V414M : Child ate liver, kidney, heart or other organ meatsstring——
q650p= V414H : Child ate any meat such as beef, pork, lamb, goat, chicken or : duckstring——
q650q= V414G : Child ate eggsstring——
q650r= V414N : Child ate fresh or dried fish or shellfishstring——
q650s= V414O : Child ate any foods made from beans, peas, lentils or nutsstring——
q650t= V414P : Child ate cheese, yogurt or other milk productsstring——
q650u= V414S : Child ate any other solid or semi-solid foodstring——
q652= M39A (REC41) : Child ate any solid, semi-solid, or soft food yesterdaystring——
q653= M39 (REC41) : Times child ate any solid, semi-solid, or soft food yesterdaystring——
q654= V465 : Disposal of stoolsstring——
qwsec07= REC51 : Marriage and Sexual Activitystring——
q701= in V501, in V502 : Currently in unionstring——
q702= in V501, in V502, V535 : Have ever been married or lived with a manstring——
q703= in V501, in V502 : Current marital statusstring——
q704= V504 : Partner living with respondentstring——
q705= V034 (REC01) : Line number of husbandstring——
q706= in V505 : Husband has other wivesstring——
q707= in V505 : Number of other wivesstring——
q708= V506 : Wife's rank numberstring——
q709= V503 : In union more than oncestring——
q710m= V507 : Time of first union (month)string——
q710y= V508 : Time of first union (year)string——
q711= V511 : Age at first unionstring——
q713= V525 : Age at first intercoursestring——
q714u= in V527 : Time since last intercourse (unit)string——
q714n= in V527 : Time since last intercourse (number)string——
q710c= V509 : Date of first union (CMC)string——
q710f= V510 : Date flag for A710Cstring——
q713f= V532 : Flag for A713string——
q714f= V530 : Flag for A714string——
q715u= V832B, V832C : Time since last intercourse other person (unit)string——
q715n= V832B, V832C : Time since last intercourse other person (number)string——
q716= V761, V761B, V761C : Used condom during last intercoursestring——
q717= V833A, V833B, V833C : Used condom every time in last 12 monthsstring——
q718= V767A, V767B, V767C : Relationship with last partnerstring——
q719u= V852A, V852B, V852C : How long ago had first intercourse with this person (unit)string——
q719n= V852A, V852B, V852C : How long ago had first intercourse with this person (number)string——
q720= V853A, V853B, V853C : Times sexual intercourse during last 12 monthsstring——
q721= V834A, V834B, V834C : Age of other partnerstring——
q722= filter : Intercourse with anyone else in last 12 monthsstring——
q723= in V766B : Total number of partners last 12 monthsstring——
q726= V791A : Last 12 months had sex because of gifts, cash or anything elsestring——
q727= V836 : Total lifetime number of sexual partnersstring——
q729= V323A (REC32) : Brand name of condom used during last time had sexstring——
q730= V762 : Source of condomsstring——
q731a= V815A : Children < 10 present during interview section 7string——
q731b= V815B : Male adults present during interview section 7string——
q731c= V815C : Female adults present during interview section 7string——
qwsec08= REC61 : Fertility Preferencesstring——
q803= in V602 : Desire future childstring——
q804= in V602 : Desire future childstring——
q605u= in V603, V616 : Time for future birth (unit)string——
q605n= in V603, V616 : Time for future birth (number)string——
q810= V3A08A:V3A08Z (REC32) : Main reason not using to limit or to spacestring——
q812= in V362, V364 (REC32) : Intend to use method any timestring——
q813= V613 : Ideal number of childrenstring——
q814a= V627 : Ideal number of boysstring——
q814b= V628 : Ideal number of girlsstring——
q814c= V629 : Ideal number of eitherstring——
q815a= V384A (REC32) : Heard FP on radio last monthsstring——
q815b= V384B (REC32) : Heard FP on TV last monthsstring——
q815c= V384C (REC32) : Heard FP newspaper or magazine last monthsstring——
q815d= V384D (REC32) : Heard FP on a mobile phone last monthsstring——
q819= V632 : Decision maker for using contraception 12string——
q822= V621 : Partner's preferred number of children same as respondentstring——
qwsec09= REC71 : Husband's and Woman's Backgroundstring——
q902= V730 : Partner's agestring——
q903= in V701 : Partner ever attended schoolstring——
q904= in V701 : Partner's level of educationstring——
q905= V702 : Partner's highest gradestring——
q906= in V704A : Partner worked in last 7 daysstring——
q907= in V704A : Partner worked in last 12 monthsstring——
q908= V704, V705 : Partner's occupationstring——
q909= in V714, V731 : Respondent worked in last 7 days (apart from own housework)string——
q910= in V714, V731 : probedstring——
q911= V714A, in V731 : Have a job from which she was absentstring——
q912= in V731 : Worked in last 12 monthsstring——
q913= V716, V717 : Respondent's occupationstring——
q914= V719 : Work for a family memberstring——
q915= V732 : Work through year/seasonallystring——
q916= V741 : Paid in cash or kindstring——
q919= V739 : Who usually decides how earnings spentstring——
q920= V746 : Earns more than partnerstring——
q921= V743F : Who usually decides on spending husband's/partner's earningsstring——
q922= V743A : Own health carestring——
q923= V743B : Making large household purchasesstring——
q924= V743D : Visits to familystring——
q925= V745A : Owns own house alone or jointlystring——
q926= in V745C : Respondent has a title deed for any house ownedstring——
q927= in V745C : Respondent’s name on house title deedstring——
q928= V745B : Owns land alone or jointlystring——
q929= in V745D : Respondent has a title deed for any land ownedstring——
q930= in V745D :.Respondent’s name on land title deedstring——
q931a= V811 (REC81) : Children <10string——
q831b= V812 (REC81) : Husbandstring——
q831c= V813 (REC81) : Other malesstring——
q831d= V814 (REC81) : Other femalesstring——
q832a= V744A : Wife goes outstring——
q832b= V744B : Wife neglects childrenstring——
q832c= V744C : Wife arguesstring——
q832d= V744D : Wife refuses sexstring——
q832e= V744E : Wife burns foodstring——
qwsec10= REC75 and REC80 : HIV/AIDSstring——
q1001= in V750, V751 : Ever heard of AIDSstring——
q1002= V754DP : Reduce chance of AIDS by having just one uninfected sex : partnerstring——
q1003= V754JP : Can get AIDS from mosquito bitesstring——
q1004= V754CP : Reduce chances of AIDS by using condomstring——
q1005= V754WP : Can get AIDS by sharing foodstring——
q1006= V823 : Can get AIDS by witchcraft or supernatural meansstring——
q1007= V756 : Can a healthy-looking person have AIDSstring——
q1008a= V744A : Aids transmitted during pregnancystring——
q1008b= V744B : Aids transmitted during deliverystring——
q1008c= V744C : Aids transmitted by breastfeedingstring——
q1010= V824 : Drugs to avoid indicator transmission to baby during pregnancystring——
q1014a= V838A : AIDS transmitted mother to childstring——
q1014b= V838B : Things to do to prevent AIDSstring——
q1014c= V838C : Getting tested for AIDS virusstring——
q1015= V839 : Offered AIDS test as part of antenatal visitstring——
q1016= in V840, V781 : Tested for AIDS virus as part of antenatal visitstring——
q1017= in V829, V842 : Place were AIDS test was taken as part of antenatal visitstring——
q1018= in V828, V841 : Got results of AIDS test as part of antenatal visitstring——
q1019= V855 : Received counseling after being testedstring——
q1021= V839A : Offered HIV test during delivery in health centerstring——
q1022= V840A, V781 : Tested for HIV during delivery in health centerstring——
q1023= V841A, V825 : Got results of HIV test during delivery in health centerstring——
q1025= V843 : Tested for AIDS virus since test as part of antenatal visitstring——
q1026= in V826A : Months ago tested for HIV since test as part of antenatal : visitstring——
q1027= V781 : Ever been tested for HIVstring——
q1028= in V826A : Months ago tested for HIV 13string——
q1029= in V828 : Got the test results of the HIV teststring——
q1030= in V829 : Place of HIV teststring——
q1031= V783 : Know a place to be tested for AIDS virusstring——
q1032= V784-V784X : Place known for AIDS teststring——
q1033= in V856 : Have heard of test kits for HIV self-testingstring——
q1034= in V856 : Have ever tested using self-test kitsstring——
q1035= V825 : Would buy vegetables from vendor with AIDSstring——
q1036= V857A : Children with HIV should be allowed to go to school with : children who do not have HIVstring——
q1037= V857B : People don’t test for HIV because they are afraid of other : peoplestring——
q1038= V857C : People talk badly about people living or suspected of living : with HIVstring——
q1039= V857D : People living with HIV lose respect of othersstring——
q1040= V777A : I would be ashamed if family member has HIVstring——
q1041= V858 : Fear getting infected when in contact with saliva of person : living with HIVstring——
q1042= V785 : Heard about other STD’sstring——
q1045= V763A : Had an STD in last 12 monthsstring——
q1046= V763C : Had abnormal genital discharge in last 12 monthsstring——
q1047= V763B : Had a genital sore or ulcer in last 12 monthsstring——
q1049= V770 : Sought advice or treatment for STDstring——
q1050= V770A:V770X : Place for advice or treatment of STDstring——
q1051= V822 : Wife is justified to ask use of condom when husband has STDstring——
q1052= V633B (REC61) : Wife is justified to refuse sex when knows husband has sex : with other womenstring——
q1054= V850A : Can respondent refuse sexstring——
q1055= V850B : Can ask partner to use condomstring——
qwsec11= REC42 : Other Health Issuesstring——
q1101= V477 : Number of injections in last 12 monthsstring——
q1102= V478 : Injections administered by a health workerstring——
q1103= V480 : Syringe and needle from new, unopened packagestring——
q1104= V463A, v473AA : Currently smokes cigarettesstring——
q1105= V464 : Number of cigarettes smoked in last 24 hoursstring——
q1106= in V463A:V463X : Currently smokes or uses tobacco besides cigarettesstring——
q1107= in V463A:V463X : Type of tobacco used besides cigarettesstring——
q1108a= V467B : Getting permissionstring——
q1108b= V467C : Getting money needed for treatmentstring——
q1108c= V467D : Distance, no nearby health facilitystring——
q1108d= V467F : Not wanting to go alonestring——
q1109= in V481A-V481X : Covered by any health insurancestring——
q1110= in V481A:V481X : Type of health insurancestring——
q1111h= V802 (REC81) : End of interview (hour)string——
q1111m= V802 (REC81) : End of interview (minutes)string——
qmm07= MMC1 : Mother's children ever bornstring——
qmm11= MMC2 : Children born before respond.string——
qmm13= not used : Column numberstring——
qmm14= MM1 : Sex of siblingstring——
qmm15= MM2 : Sibling alivestring——
qmm16= MM3 : Age of siblingstring——
qmm17= MM6 : Years since sibling’s deathstring——
qmm18= MM7 : Age of sibling at deathstring——
qmm19= in MM9 : Died while pregnantstring——
qmm20= in MM9 : Died during childbirthstring——
qmm21= in MM9, in MM12 : Died within 2 months of deliverystring——
qmm22= in MM9, in MM12 : Days after pregnancy sister diedstring——
qmm23= in MM16 : Death due to violencestring——
qmm24= in MM16 : Death due to an accidentstring——
qmm16c= MM4 : CMC date of birth of siblingstring——
qmm17c= MM8 : CMC date of death of siblingstring——
dv01= V044 (REC01) : Privacy obtainedstring——
dv03a= D101A : He is jealous or angry if talk to other menstring——
dv03b= D101B : He accuses you of being unfaithfulstring——
dv03c= D101C : He does not permit you to meet your female friendsstring——
dv03d= D101D : He tries to limit your contact with your familystring——
dv03e= D101E : He insists on knowing where you are 14string——
dv03f= D101F : He did not trust you with any moneystring——
dv07= D109 : First time it happenedstring——
dv08a= D110A : Ever had cuts, bruises or aches because of husband's actstring——
dv08b= D110B : Ever had eye injuries, sprains, dislocations or burnsstring——
dv08c= D110D : Ever had deep wounds, broken bones, broken teeth or other : serious injurystring——
dv09= D112 : Ever physically hurt husband when he was not hurting youstring——
dv11= D112A : Times physically hurt husband last 12 monthsstring——
dv12= D113 : Partner drinks alcoholstring——
dv13= D114 : Times partner gets drunkstring——
dv16= in D115B:D115XK : From age 15 anyone (other than husband/partner) ever hit, : slapped, kicked or done anything to hustring——
dv17= in D115B:D115XK : Person who hurt respondentstring——
dv18= D117A : Times hit by other than partner last 12 monthsstring——
dv20= in D118A:D118XK : Ever physically hurt during pregnancy?string——
dv21= in D118A:D118XK : Person who hurt her during pregnancystring——
dv22a= in D125 : To ever married respondents: anyone (besides partner) ever : forced respondent to have intercoursestring——
dv22b= in D125 : To never married respondents: anyone ever forced respondent to : have intercoursestring——
dv23= D127 : Person who forced respondent to first sexual activitystring——
dv24= D124 : Anyone (besides partner) forced respondent to have sexual : intercourse in past 12 monthsstring——
dv25= D126 : Age at first forced sexual activitystring——
dv27= in D119A:D119XK : Sought help from someonestring——
dv28= in D119A:D119XK : From whom have you sought help?string——
dv29= D128 : Ever told anyone about violencestring——
dv30= D121 : Did her father ever beat her motherstring——
dv31a= D122A : Interrupted interview because of husband's presencestring——
dv31b= D122B : Interrupted interview because of other adult male's presencestring——
dv31c= D122C : Interrupted interview because of adult female's presencestring——
gc01= G100 : Ever heard of female circumcision 15string——
gc02= G101 : Ever heard of genital cutting (probed)string——
gc03= G102 : Respondent circumcisedstring——
gc04= G103 : Flesh removed from genital areastring——
gc05= G104 : Genital area just nicked without removing any fleshstring——
gc06= G105 : Genital area sewn closedstring——
gc07= G106 : Age at circumcisionstring——
gc08= G107 : Who performed circumcisionstring——
gc10= GIDX : Line number in birth history of living daughters born in last : 5 yearsstring——
gc11= G121 : Daughter circumcisedstring——
gc12= G122 : Age of daughter at circumcisionstring——
gc13= G123 : Genital area of daughter sewn closedstring——
gc14= G124 : Who performed circumcisionstring——
gc16= G118 : Circumcision is required by religionstring——
gc17= G119 : Circumcision should continue or be stoppedstring——
qmsec01= MREC01 : [Men] Respondent's Backgroundstring——
qm101h= in MV801 : Start of interview (hour)string——
qm101m= in MV801 : Start of interview (minutes)string——
qm102= MV104 : Time lived in current place of residencestring——
qm103= MV105 : Previous place of residencestring——
qm104= MV105A : Province/State lived before move to current place of residencestring——
qm105m= MV009 : Month of birthstring——
qm105y= MV010 : Year of birthstring——
qm106= MV012 : Current age of respondentstring——
qm107= in MV106 : Ever attended schoolstring——
qm108= in MV106 : Highest educational levelstring——
qm109= MV107 : Highest grade at that levelstring——
qm111= MV155 : Sentence readstring——
qm113= MV157 : Reads newspaper or magazinestring——
qm114= MV158 : Listens to radiostring——
qm115= MV159 : Watches TVstring——
qm116= MV169A : Owns mobile telephonestring——
qm117= MV169B : Uses mobile telephone for financial transactionsstring——
qm118= MV170 : Has bank account for own usestring——
qm119= in MV171A : Ever use the internetstring——
qm120= in MV171A : Used internet in last 12 monthsstring——
qm121= MV171B : Frequency of using the internet during last monthstring——
qm122= MV130 : Religionstring——
qm123= MV131 : Ethnicitystring——
qm105c= MV011 : Date of birth (CMC)string——
qm105f= MV014 : Date flag for AM105Cstring——
qm106c= MV012 : Age of respondent calculatedstring——
qmsec02= MREC22 : [Men] Reproductionstring——
qm201= not used : Ever fathered any childrenstring——
qm202= not used : Sons or daughters living withstring——
qm203a= V202 : Sons at homestring——
qm203b= V203 : Daughters at homestring——
qm204= not used : Sons or daughters living awaystring——
qm205a= V204 : Sons living elsewherestring——
qm205b= V205 : Daughters living elsewherestring——
qm206= not used : Sons or daughters who diedstring——
qm207a= V206 : Boys who diedstring——
qm207b= V207 : Girls who diedstring——
qm208= V208 : Total children ever fatheredstring——
qm210= MV245 : Children have same motherstring——
qm211= MV212 : Age at birth of first childstring——
qm213= MV247 : Age of youngeststring——
qm216= MV248 : Antenatal check-ups for the motherstring——
qm217= MV249 : Present during check-upsstring——
qm218= MV250 : Place of birth of youngeststring——
qm219= MV252 : Drinking pattern during diarrheastring——
qmsec3a= MREC31 : [Men] Contraceptive Knowledge & Usestring——
qm3n= M304A : Contraceptive methodstring——
qm301= MV304 : Heard of method 16string——
qmsec3b= various records : [Men] Contraceptive Practicestring——
qm302a= MV384A : on the radiostring——
qm302b= MV384B : on the televisionstring——
qm302c= MV384C : in a newspaper or magazinestring——
qm302d= MV384D : on mobile phonestring——
qm303= MV395 : Discussed family planning with a health worker or health : professionalstring——
qm304= in MV217 : Increased chance of woman getting pregnant on certain daysstring——
qm305= in MV217 : Days when increased chance of getting pregnantstring——
qm306= MV396A : Can a woman become pregnant before her period has returnedstring——
qm307a= MV3B25A : Contraception is woman's business, man should not worrystring——
qm307b= BV3B25B : Women use contraception may become promiscuousstring——
qmsec04= MREC51 : [Men] Marriage and Sexual Activitystring——
qm401= in MV501 : Currently in unionstring——
qm402= in MV501 : Have ever been married or lived with a womanstring——
qm403= in MV501 : Current marital statusstring——
qm404= MV504 : Partner living with respondentstring——
qm405= in MV505 : Other partnersstring——
qm406= in MV505, MV035 : Number of womenstring——
qm407= MV034 : Line number of wife, partnerstring——
qm408= MV034B : Age of wife/partnerstring——
qm410= MV503 : Times marriedstring——
qm411m= MV507 : Date of first union (month)string——
qm411y= MV508 : Date of first union (year)string——
qm412= MV511 : Age at first unionstring——
qm414= MV525 : Age at first intercoursestring——
qm415u= in MV527 : Time since last intercourse (unit)string——
qm415n= in MV527 : Time since last intercourse (number)string——
qm423= not used : Sexual intercourse with any other person in last 12 monthsstring——
qm424= MV766B : Total number of partners in the last 12 monthsstring——
qm427= in MV793 : In the past 12 months, paid for sexstring——
qm428= in MV793, MV791 : Ever paid anyone in exchange for having sexstring——
qm429= MV793A : Used condom last paid for sexstring——
qm430= MV793B : Condom used every time paid for sexstring——
qm431= in MV791A : In the past 12 months given gifts for sexstring——
qm432= in MV791A, MV791B : Ever given any gifts for sexstring——
qm433= MV836 : Number of lifetime sexual partnersstring——
qm435= MV323A : Brand of condom used during last sexstring——
qm436= MV762, MV3B17 : Place obtained condom last timestring——
qm437= in MV312 : Last time had sex, contraception other than condom usedstring——
qm438= in MV312 : Used contraception during last intercoursestring——
qm439= in MV312, MV307 : Contraceptive methodstring——
qm440= MV3A00Y : Know a place to obtain family planning method 17string——
qm411c= MV509 : Date of first union (CMC)string——
qm411f= MV510 : Date flag for QM411Cstring——
qm412c= MV511 : Age at first union (calculated)string——
qm414f= MV532 : Flag for QM414string——
qmsec05= MREC61 : [Men] Fertility Preferencesstring——
qm504= MV213 : Wife/partner currently pregnantstring——
qm505= in MV602 : Desire for future birth (wife pregnant)string——
qm506u= in MV603, in MV616 : Time for future birth wife pregnant (unit)string——
qm506n= in MV603, in MV616 : Time for future birth wife pregnant (number)string——
qm507= in MV602 : Desire for future child (wife not pregnant)string——
qm508u= in MV603, in MV616 : Time for future birth (wife not pregnant) (units)string——
qm508n= in MV603, in MV616 : Time for future birth (wife not pregnant) (number)string——
qm509= MV213 : Any wife/wives currently pregnantstring——
qm510= in MV602 : Desire for future child (at least 1 wife pregnant)string——
qm511u= in MV603, in MV616 : Time for future birth (at least 1 wife pregnant) (units)string——
qm511n= in MV603, in MV616 : Time for future birth (at least 1 wife pregnant) (number)string——
qm512= in MV602 : Desire for future child (non of the wives pregnant)string——
qm513u= in MV603, in MV616 : Time for future birth (non of the wives pregnant) (units)string——
qm513n= in MV603, in MV616 : Time for future birth (non of the wives pregnant) (number)string——
qm514= MV613 : Ideal number of childrenstring——
qm515a= MV627 : Ideal number of boysstring——
qm515b= MV628 : Ideal number of girlsstring——
qm515c= MV629 : Ideal number of eitherstring——
qmsec06= MREC71 : [Men] Employment and Gender Rolesstring——
qm601= in MV714 : Currently workingstring——
qm602= in MV714, MV714A : Has job from which was absentstring——
qm603= MV731 : Worked last 12 monthsstring——
qm604= MV716 : Occupationstring——
qm605= MV732 : Works seasonallystring——
qm606= MV741 : Paid in cash or kindstring——
qm609= MV739 : Decision maker on using the money earnedstring——
qm610= MV743A : Decision on respondent’s health carestring——
qm611= MV743B : Decision on large HH purchasesstring——
qm612= MV745A : Owns own house alone or jointlystring——
qm613= in MV745C : Respondent has a title deed for any house ownedstring——
qm614= in MV745C : Respondent’s name on the title deed for the housestring——
qm615= MV745B : Owns land alone or jointlystring——
qm616= in MV745D : Respondent has a title deed for any land ownedstring——
qm617= in MV745D : Respondent’s name is on the title deed for the landstring——
qm618a= MV744A : going out without telling himstring——
qm618b= MV744B : neglects childrenstring——
qm618c= MV744C : arguingstring——
qm618d= MV744D : refusing sexstring——
qm615e= MV744E : burning foodstring——
qmsec07= MREC75 and MREC80 : [Men] HIV/AIDSstring——
qm701= in MV750, MV751 : Ever heard of AIDSstring——
qm702= MV754DP : Reduce chance getting AIDS by having just one uninfected sex : partner who has no other sex parstring——
qm703= MV754JP : Can get AIDS from mosquito bitesstring——
qm704= MV754CP : Reduce chance of AIDS by using condom every time they have sexstring——
qm705= MV754WP : Can get AIDS by sharing food with someone infected with AIDS : virusstring——
qm706= MV823 : Can get AIDS by witchcraft or supernatural meansstring——
qm707= MV756 : Possible for healthy-looking person to have AIDS virusstring——
qm708a= MV774A : pregnancystring——
qm708b= MV774B : deliverystring——
qm708c= MV774C : breastfeedingstring——
qm710= MV824 : Special drugs to avoid AIDS transmission to babystring——
qm712= MV781 : Ever been tested for AIDS virusstring——
qm713= MV826 : When was last time you were testedstring——
qm714= MV828 : Received results of teststring——
qm715= MV829 : Place for HIV teststring——
qm716= MV783 : Know a place to get tested for AIDS virusstring——
qm717= MV784A:MV784X : Place to get tested for AIDS virusstring——
qm718= in MV856 : Have heard of test kits for HIV self testingstring——
qm719= in MV856 : Have ever tested using self-test kitsstring——
qm720= MV825 : Would buy vegetables from vendor with AIDSstring——
qm721= MV857A : Children with HIV should be allowed to go to school with 18string——
qm722= MV857B : People don’t test for HIV because they are afraid of reaction : of other peoplestring——
qm723= MV857C : People talk bad about people living with (or suspected of) : living with HIVstring——
qm724= MV857D : People living with HIV loose respect of other peoplestring——
qm725= MV777A : Agree with statement: I would be ashamed if someone in my : family had HIVstring——
qm726= MV858 : Fear getting infected if in contact with saliva of HIV : infected personstring——
qm727= MV785 : Heard about other STDsstring——
qm730= MV763A : Had an STD in last 12 monthsstring——
qm731= MV763C : Genital discharge in last 12 monthsstring——
qm732= MV763B : Genital sore or ulcer in last 12 monthsstring——
qm734= MV770 : Seek advice or treatmentstring——
qm735= MV770A:MV770X : Place where sought advice or treatment for STDstring——
qm736= MV822 : Justified to ask for use of condoms when husband has a diseasestring——
qm737= MV633B : Right to refuse sex: husband has other partnersstring——
qmsec08= MREC41 : [Men] Other Health Issuesstring——
m801= MV483 : Respondent circumcisedstring——
m802= MV483A : Age at circumcisionstring——
qm803= MV483B : Who performed circumcisionstring——
qm804= MV483C : Place of circumcisionstring——
qm805= MV477 : Number of injections in last 12 monthsstring——
qm806= MV478 : Number of injections by health professionalstring——
qm807= MV480 : Syringe or needle from new packagestring——
qm808= MV463AA : Frequency smoking tobacco currentlystring——
qm809= MV463AC : In the past, smoked every daystring——
qm810= MV463AD : Frequency smoked tobacco in the paststring——
qm811a= MV464A : Daily frequency of smoking: manufactured cigarettesstring——
qm811b= MV464B : Daily frequency of smoking: hand-rolled cigarettesstring——
qm811c= MV464C : Daily frequency of smoking: kreteksstring——
qm811d= MV464D : Daily frequency of smoking: pipes full of tobaccostring——
qm811e= MV464E : Daily frequency of smoking: cigars, cheroots or cigarillosstring——
qm811f= MV464F : Daily frequency of smoking: number of water pipe cessionsstring——
qm811g= MV464G : Daily frequency of smoking: othersstring——
qm812a= MV484A : Weekly frequency of smoking: manufactured cigarettesstring——
qm812b= MV484B : Weekly frequency of smoking: hand-rolled cigarettesstring——
qm812c= MV484C : Weekly frequency of smoking: kreteksstring——
qm812d= MV484D : Weekly frequency of smoking: pipes full of tobaccostring——
qm812e= MV484E : Weekly frequency of smoking: cigars, cheroots or cigarillosstring——
qm812f= MV484F : Weekly frequency of smoking: number of water pipe cessionsstring——
qm812g= MV484G : Weekly frequency of smoking: othersstring——
qm813= MV463AB : Frequency using smokeless tobaccostring——
qm814a= MV464H : Daily frequency using smokeless: snuff by mouthstring——
qm814b= MV464I : Daily frequency using smokeless: snuff by nosestring——
qm814c= MV464J : Daily frequency using smokeless: chewing tobaccostring——
qm814d= MV464K : Daily frequency using smokeless: betel quid with tobaccostring——
qm814e= MV464L : Daily frequency using smokeless: any othersstring——
qm815a= MV484H : Weekly frequency using smokeless: snuff by mouthstring——
qm815b= MV484I : Weekly frequency using smokeless: snuff by nosestring——
qm815c= MV484J : Weekly frequency using smokeless: chewing tobaccostring——
qm815d= MV484K : Weekly frequency using smokeless: betel quid with tobaccostring——
qm815e= MV484L : Weekly frequency using smokeless: any othersstring——
qm816= MV481 : Health insurancestring——
qm817= MV481A:MV481X : Type of health insurancestring——
qm818h= in MV802-MREC01 : End of interview (hour)string——
qm818m= in MV802-MREC01 : End of interview (minutes) 19string——

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