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 […]
Tuesday began with a torrential downpour; the roads in Lomé were nearly impassable. I was certain that I was going to be late for the journalist workshop. The taxi dropped me off at the wrong entrance, and I had to wait nearly 20 minutes to cross the open-air plaza to reach the correct conference room […]
For 30 years, The DHS Program has asked women hundreds of questions about their utilization of various health care services, including family planning, antenatal and delivery care, vaccination and treatment of sick children, malaria treatment, and HIV prevention and treatment. In 1999, The DHS Program started collecting facility-level data through the Service Provision Assessment (SPA) […]
Have you ever been to a workshop that combined interactive PowerPoints, fun hands-on activities, malaria indicator trivia games, and lots and lots of data analysis? No? Well then, you haven’t taken part in a Regional DHS/MIS Malaria Analysis Workshop hosted by The DHS Program. The malaria analysis team recently hosted two such regional workshops, one […]
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 […]
Anthropometry measurement (height and weight) is a core component of DHS surveys that is used to generate indicators on nutritional status. The Biomarker Questionnaire now includes questions on clothing and hairstyle interference on measurements for both women and children for improved interpretation.