Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2008-2009
General Info
Coverage type
Country
Time period covered
November, 2008 - February, 2009
Series or system
Data type
Survey:
Cross-sectional - GPS coordinates (GIS) - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Subnationally representative - Urban-rural representative
Summary
The Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2008-2009 is part of phase 5 of the DHS series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Covers population, education, health, nutrition, family planning and household characteristics. GPS coordinates were collected during the survey.
Keywords
Abortion, Abortive outcome, Age at first sex, Alcohol use, Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antibiotics, Antihelminthics, Antimalarials, Antimotility drugs, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth certificates, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Blood tests, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Causes of death, Child anthropometry, Child mortality, Childhood sexual violence, Circumcision, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Education, Electricity, Emergency contraception, Employment, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female circumcision, Female infertility, Fertility, Fever, HIV and AIDS, Health care access, Health care use, Health education, Health insurance, Health literacy, Health promotion, Height, Hepatitis vaccines, Hookworm disease, Household air pollution, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, IUDs, Immunization, Indoor residual spraying, Infant mortality, Influenza vaccines, Injectable contraceptives, Insecticide-treated bednets, Intentional injuries, Interpersonal violence, Intimate partner violence, Iodine supplements, Iron supplements, Land ownership, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Male infertility, Malnutrition, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Maternal mortality, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Menopause, Menstruation, Mortality, Multiple births, Neonatal conditions, Night blindness, Obstetric fistulas, Obstructed labor, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, Pentavalent vaccines, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Religion, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Sexual violence, Skilled birth attendants, Smokeless tobacco use, Spermicides, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Upper respiratory infections, Vaccination cards, Vision loss, Vitamin A supplements, Water supply, Weight, Yellow fever vaccines, Zinc, Complete sibling history
Citation
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Publisher
Suggested citation
ICF Macro, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation (Kenya), National AIDS and STI Control Program (NASCOP) (Kenya), National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) (United States), National Coordinating Agency for Population and Development (Kenya). Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2008-2009. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International.