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Colombia Demographic and Health Survey 1990

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
Encuesta de Prevalencia, Demografía y Salud 1990
Provider 
Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)
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Geography 
Colombia (COL)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
05/1990 - 08/1990
Series or system 
DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS)
DHS Program Surveys
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The Colombia Demographic and Health Survey 1990 was part of phase 2 of the DHS series. DHS is a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey whichovers population, education, health, nutrition, family planning and household characteristics.

The survey was completed by 8,644 women between the ages of 15 and 49 in 7,412 households. In addition to the standard modules, it also collected data about intra-family violence.

Keywords 
Abortion, Abortive outcome, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Anemia, Antenatal care, Antibiotics, Antimalarials, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Child mortality, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Domestic violence, Education, Electricity, Employment, Family composition, Family size, Female infertility, Fertility, Fever, Health care access, Health care use, Health literacy, Household air pollution, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, IUDs, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Interpersonal violence, Intimate partner violence, Land ownership, Literacy, Live births, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Male infertility, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Menstruation, Mortality, Multiple births, Neonatal conditions, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, Pap smears, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Preterm birth, Respiratory infections, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Sexual violence, Skilled birth attendants, Spermicides, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Vaccination cards, Water supply
GHDx Entry last modified on: Sep 6, 2023