Category Archives: Video

The DHS Program’s Digital Resources

Written by: The DHS Program

22 Jun, 2021

The DHS Program has several digital resources available for free to help data users understand, analyze, visualize, and use DHS survey indicators to support evidence-based decision making. Click on each icon below to access the digital resource. Have you used any of The DHS Program’s digital resources? Share your feedback with The DHS Program by […]


Learn How to Use The DHS Program’s Code Share Library on GitHub

Written by: The DHS Program

21 Apr, 2021

The DHS Program recently released three YouTube tutorial videos to help DHS data users access The DHS Program’s Code Share Library on GitHub. The Code Share Library was started in 2018 to provide code for producing DHS indicators listed in the Guide to DHS Statistics using statistical software like Stata or SPSS. This year, The […]


Reading DHS Tables in 4 Easy Steps

Written by: The DHS Program

08 May, 2018

Statistical tables can look intimidating at first glance. That’s why we created this How to Read DHS Tables video tutorial using model datasets. Model datasets are created strictly for practice and do not represent any actual country’s data. Download the full model datasets report tables, and follow along on your own. At the end of the tutorial, […]


The Best of DHS 2017

Written by: The DHS Program

27 Dec, 2017

Another year has passed at The DHS Program, and we’re looking back at some of our best moments throughout the year! Just to name a few: Afghanistan, Angola, and Myanmar released their first-ever Demographic and Health Surveys.      The new and improved Spatial Data Repository website now includes modeled surfaces and geospatial covariates.  We introduced the […]


Everything You Need to Know about DHS Data and More

Written by: The DHS Program

15 May, 2017

So, you’re new to DHS and you’ve registered as a DHS data user, downloaded the free available datasets, but now what? We have the perfect resources to get you started. The following videos provide an overview of DHS data answering key questions such as, what is a data file or dataset? What is the difference between De […]


7 Tips to Matching DHS Final Report Tables

Written by: The DHS Program

21 Mar, 2017

Feeling frustrated because you can’t match DHS Final Report tables in your statistical software?   Our new four-part video series shows the Top 7 Tips & Tricks for Matching DHS Final Report Tables. In this four-part video series, we will be covering the top 7 tips and tricks to matching The DHS Program Final Reports using […]


Where Statistics are Beautiful

Written by: Sunita Kishor

10 Feb, 2017

Hans Rosling created a world where “statistics are beautiful” and data are entertaining. The staff at The DHS Program have always believed these things to be true but found it difficult to convince the masses. And then came Gapminder and the juggernaut of Hans Rosling’s charismatic, informative, and perspective-changing data presentations. The DHS Program was heartbroken […]


Video: Best of DHS 2016

Written by: The DHS Program

21 Dec, 2016

Take a look back at the highlights of The DHS Program from 2016… The DHS Program welcomed several new staff members: via GIPHY The 2014 Lesotho DHS final report was released using a new final report format: via GIPHY Faster data, including the model datasets and bulk downloading of datasets using a download manager: via […]


Video: Best of The DHS Program 2015

Written by: The DHS Program

07 Jan, 2016

Take a look back at the highlights of The DHS Program from 2015…   The DHS Program welcomed several new staff members: via GIPHY   We released two helpful tutorial videos on sampling and weighting DHS data: via GIPHY   33 South-to-South consultants from 23 countries played an integral role in capacity strengthening for all aspects of survey planning and […]


Sampling and Weighting with DHS Data

Written by: Mahmoud Elkasabi

16 Sep, 2015

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 […]