Category Archives: Luminare: DHS Program Innovations

Luminare: Providing Sample Weights for Multilevel Analysis while Protecting Confidentiality

Written by: The DHS Program

07 Oct, 2020

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 […]


Luminare: Geospatial Modeling for Locally Available Data

Written by: Ben Mayala

11 Feb, 2020

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 […]


Luminare: Programming Code for DHS Indicators

Written by: The DHS Program

10 Jul, 2019
DHS Staff Programming

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 […]


Luminare: The Senegal Continuous Survey

Written by: The DHS Program

12 Jun, 2019

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 […]


Luminare: Customize Fertility and Childhood Mortality Rates with DHS.rates

Written by: The DHS Program

30 May, 2019

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? […]


Luminare: Field Testing Solutions to Anthropometry Data Collection in Nigeria

Written by: The DHS Program

23 May, 2019

© 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, […]


Luminare: The DHS Program Blog Series on Innovation

Written by: The DHS Program

25 Apr, 2019

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 […]