Survey ID Number
MWI_2015_DHS_v01_M
Title
Demographic and Health Survey 2015-2016
Notes
The 2015-16 Malawi 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, and birth registration
• 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, and possessions of durable goods (including land) and mosquito nets.
INDIVIDUAL WOMAN
• Background characteristics: age, education, media exposure
• Reproduction: children ever born, birth history, current pregnancy
• Family planning: knowledge and use of contraception, sources of contraceptive methods, information on family planning
• Maternal and child health, breastfeeding, and nutrition
• 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
• Fertility preferences: desire for more children, ideal number of children, gender preferences, intention to use family planning
• Husband’s background and woman’s work: husband’s age, level of education, and occupation, and woman’s occupation and sources of earnings
• STDs and HIV: knowledge of STDs and HIV, methods of transmission, sources of information, behaviours to avoid STDs and HIV, and stigma
• Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours related to other health issues such as injections, smoking, fistula, tuberculosis
• Adult and maternal mortality
• Domestic violence
INDIVIDUAL MAN
• Respondent background
• Reproduction
• Contraception
• Marriage and sexual activity
• Fertility preferences
• Employment and gender roles
• HIV/AIDS
• Other health issues
BIOMARKER
• Weight, height, and hemoglobin measurement for children age 0-5
• Weight, height, hemoglobin measurements and HIV testing for women age 15-49
• HIV testing for men age 15-54
• Weight, height, hemoglobin measurements and HIV testing for men age 15-54