It’s that time of the year again, and we’re back with another World Population Day #PopPyramid Quiz! Population pyramids are great ways to visualize a country’s distribution of various age groups in a population by sex. We also created an infographic with population pyramids from recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). Scroll down below the […]
The National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recently reoriented their communication strategy around insecticide-treated nets or ITNs, moving from a focus on behavior change around ITN use to a focus on net care and repair to extend the life of existing ITNs. Why the change? The 2013-14 DRC Demographic […]
Did you know The DHS Program has made changes to the collection, calculation, and terminology used for maternal and pregnancy-related mortality data? Our new three-part video series based on our blog post addressing changes to the DHS-7 questionnaire breaks down everything you need to know. The first video in the series, the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) Indicator […]
Journalists worldwide use DHS, MIS, and SPA surveys as source data for essential stories – stories about domestic violence, HIV prevention, and child survival. Coverage of these topics brings awareness to these critical issues and often prompts policy change. In any given month, DHS Program data are cited in hundreds of print, television, radio, and […]
We are pleased to showcase a new mini-tool on our website that allows you to quickly interact with indicators for topics such as family planning, gender, malaria, and nutrition. We have preselected 10-15 key indicators per topic that you can view by country or globally. Family Planning Gender Malaria Nutrition Simply navigate to your favorite topic to see […]
Have you ever wondered if high-levels of precipitation affect birthweights and infant and child survival? Is increased use of insecticide-treated bed nets associated with lower incidence of malaria? Do children in households near battle zones or other violent contexts have higher levels of child malnutrition? Do some staple crop regimes promote better health outcomes than others? […]
In 2017, three new countries joined the list of those who have implemented nationally representative and internationally comparable Demographic and Health Surveys, setting a baseline by which to measure progress on standardized health indicators. Earlier this year, Afghanistan and Myanmar released the results of their first DHS surveys, and as of June 30, Angola, too, […]
A lot can change in 20 years. For The DHS Program, it’s the difference between over 250 datasets for 70 separate surveys to more than 10,000 datasets from over 300 surveys. The contents of the model survey questionnaires changed radically, as did the media used for data distribution. And two decades ago, the internet had only […]
How well do you know your population pyramids? Celebrate World Population Day with The DHS Program’s Guess the Population Pyramid Quiz! See how you stack up against others and share your results below in the comment section, on Facebook, or Twitter! We are also having a live version of Guess the #PopPyramid on Twitter July 11 at 10AM […]
DHS-7 surveys are using a more precise method to calculate children’s age. The change, though far-reaching, has very little impact on interpretation and use of DHS data for program managers and policymakers. It does, however, have major implications for researchers doing secondary analysis of DHS data. If you are working with DHS datasets, a full […]