Notes
The 2016 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey covered the following topics:
HOUSEHOLD
• Identification
• Usual members and visitors in the selected households
• Background information on each person listed, such as relationship to head of the household, age, sex, marital status, survivorship and residence of bilogical parents, school attendance, highest educational attainment, domestic violence, birth registration, and disability
• Child discipline
• Characteristics of the household's dwelling unit, such as the source of water, type of toilet facilities, type of fuel used for cooking, materials used for the floor, roof and walls of the house, possessions of durable goods (including land), mosquito nets, and road traffic accidents.
INDIVIDUAL WOMAN
• Background characteristics: age, education, and media exposure
• Reproduction: children ever born, birth history, and current pregnancy
• Family planning: knowledge and use of contraception, sources of contraceptive methods, and information on family planning
• Maternal and child health, breastfeeding, and nutrition: prenatal care, delivery, postnatal care, breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices, vaccination coverage, prevalence and treatment of diarrhoea, symptoms of acute respiratory infection (ARI), fever, knowledge of oral rehydration salts (ORS), and use of oral rehydration therapy (ORT)
• Marriage and sexual activity: marital status, age at first marriage, number of unions, age at first sexual intercourse, recent sexual activity, number and type of sexual partners, use of condoms, knowledge and experience of obstetric fistula, and female genital cutting
• Fertility preferences: desire for more children, ideal number of children, gender preferences, and intention to use family planning
• Husbands’ background characteristics and women’s work: husbands’ age, level of education, and occupation and women’s occupation and sources of earnings
• STIs and HIV/AIDS: knowledge of STIs and AIDS and methods of transmission, sources of information, behaviours to avoid STIs and HIV, and stigma
• Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours related to other health issues such as injections and smoking
• Adult and maternal mortality
• Domestic violence (questions asked of one woman per household)
• Early childhood development
INDIVIDUAL MAN
• Respondent background
• Reproduction
• Contraception
• Marriage and sexual activity
• Fertility preferences
• Employment and gender roles
• HIV/AIDS
• Other health issues
BIOMARKER
• Weight, height, hemoglobin measurement and malaria, Vitamin A testing for children age 0-5
• Weight, height, and hemoglobin measurement for women age 15-49
• Weight, height, and hemoglobin measurement for men age 15-54