At long last, The DHS Program has released two videos which demonstrate how to weight DHS data, concluding the Sampling and Weighting video series. The first video in the series, Introduction to DHS Sampling Procedures, as well as the second video, Introduction of Principles of DHS Sampling Weights, explained the basic concepts of sampling and weighting […]
The DHS Program mobile app was first released in September 2013. Now, two years later, we are ready with the latest version: meet The DHS Program Mobile App v2.0! Many changes have been made, but the key features of v2.0 include: Access to new data Data is retrieved from the newly revised STATcompiler database through […]
If you’ve recently written an academic paper, you probably used reference management software, such as Endnote, Zotero, Mendeley, or RefWorks, to organize and import your references. And if you’re a DHS data user, you probably have a handful of DHS analytical, comparative, or methodological reports that you regularly refer to. Now, you can download our […]
Have you ever wished that you could download just one dataset for multiple surveys with all of the data you want for your analysis in one file? And that the dataset wasn’t so huge and overwhelming? And that the variables in the dataset were all harmonized? The Minnesota Population Center has been working on the Integrated […]
Name: Hamdy Moussa Position title: Survey Manager, Service Provision Assessment (SPA) Surveys Languages spoken: Arabic and English When not working, favorite place to visit: New York and Cairo Favorite type of cuisine: Mediterranean and Italian Last good book you read: Health Systems Performance Assessment: Debates, Methods and Empiricism, WHO Where would we find you on […]
At this year’s Population Association of America (PAA) conference, The DHS Program staff (along with co-authors from JSI and Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs) presented the first paper in the data visualization session. It was called “Why Demographers Need to be Data Visualization Experts.” It appears we were preaching to the choir. While this […]
Very few countries have as much experience with The DHS Program as Egypt. Since 1988, Egypt has implemented seven standard DHS surveys, three Interim Surveys, one In-Depth Study, and two Service Provision Assessment Surveys (SPA). Data collection is almost completed for a Health Indicator Survey (HIS), and plans are underway to start another SPA. So any […]
Most people don’t know just how many collaborating institutions are involved in the day-to-day implementation of The DHS Program. ICF International is the prime contractor for The DHS Program. But 20% of us who sit at ICF’s office in Rockville, Maryland, are actually employed by other partner organizations. Who are these partners? Avenir Health (formerly the Futures Institute) specializes […]
The DHS Program regularly gets questions from users about sampling and weighting. “How do I apply sample weights in multilevel analyses?” or “What is the difference between self weighting data and non-self weighting data?” On June 3, 2015, three DHS experts will answer users’ questions on “Weights and other adjustments for the survey design” in […]
Name(s): Saikou Trawally, Alieu Saho, and Momodou L. Cham Country of origin: The Gambia Position titles and organizations: Officials of The Gambia Bureau of Statistics and National Population Commission Secretariat When not working, favorite place to visit: Shopping sites, relatives and friends, and site seeing cultural centers. First time you worked with The DHS Program’s data: Momodou: […]