The Service Provision Assessment (SPA) is a health facility-based survey that was recently revised to address the increasing need for data about the quality of care in health facilities. The new SPA collects information on available health services as well as Quality of Care (QoC) measures that assess both structural and process quality. Structural quality […]
Since 1984, The DHS Program has conducted 400+ surveys in 90+ countries. That is a lot of surveys and a lot of data! In the past, if a DHS Program data user wanted to reference a particular survey question, they would have to search the questionnaire in the back of the survey Final Report of […]
The DHS Program recently published a Methodological Report providing a framework for estimating “level-weights” in DHS surveys – weights that correspond to each stage of sampling. These weights are required for multilevel modeling. While the audience for the framework itself is academic researchers, the challenge of protecting respondent confidentiality while supporting data analysis is of […]
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) collect nationally representative data and data representative at the first subnational administrative level (ADMIN 1). The 2016 Ethiopia DHS was designed to produce representative estimates for nine regions and two administrative cities. The 2014 Kenya DHS produced estimates for eight regions (formerly provinces). In addition to national-level indicators, STATcompiler also […]
The DHS Program clearly loves data, but what good is collecting data if it is not used, or used only in isolation? This was the motivation behind a Malaria Data Consultative Meeting implemented by The DHS Program and co-facilitated by Dr. Katherine Battle of the Malaria Atlas Project in Malawi in July 2019. Routine health […]
This blog post is part of Luminare, our blog series exploring innovative solutions to data collection, quality assurance, biomarker measurement, data use, and further analysis. Have you ever wondered how to write a Stata program for vaccination coverage or struggled to construct mortality rates using DHS data? Well, DHS Program staff are busy writing SPSS and Stata code for all indicators […]
This blog post is part of Luminare, our new blog series exploring innovative solutions to data collection, quality assurance, biomarker measurement, data use, and further analysis. Two needs are often expressed by both DHS host countries and donors: 1) for data to be made available more frequently, and 2) for the continued strengthening of implementing agencies’ capacity to conduct […]
This blog post is part of Luminare, our new blog series exploring innovative solutions to data collection, quality assurance, biomarker measurement, data use, and further analysis. This is the second post in the series that focuses on innovations using DHS.rates data. Ever struggled to calculate fertility or child mortality indicators from survey data? Want to customize the reference period? […]
© 2018 Hanna Useem/ICF This blog post is part of Luminare, our new blog series exploring innovative solutions to data collection, quality assurance, biomarker measurement, data use, and further analysis. This is the first post in the series that focuses on innovations to improve the quality of anthropometry data. Anthropometry, the measurement of the human body, gives a snapshot of the malnutrition situation in a country. Yet, […]
This blog post is part of Luminare: The DHS Program Blog Series on Innovation. You can find additional posts in the Luminare series here. While The DHS Program is known for comparability and standard methods, it would not be relevant today without innovation. We’ve made big leaps – like moving from paper to tablet-based interviewing […]