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Laos Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2000

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
Laos National Health Survey 2000
Provider 
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
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Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
03/2000 - 04/2000
Series or system 
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS)
MICS Program Surveys
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

Part of MICS2, an international survey initiative to monitor the situation of children and women, covering health, education, child protection and HIV/AIDS; it includes vaccination, contraceptive use and symptoms like diarrhea, cough and fever. The MICS2 in Laos was done as part of the National Health Survey.

Of households in the sample 6,498 were successfully interviewed; interviews with 3,657 women and interviews for 5,212 children under age five were completed.

Keywords 
Agriculture, Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Antimalarials, Ascariasis, BCG vaccines, Birth certificates, Birth weight, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Child anthropometry, Child development, Child labor, Children, Community health clinics, Cooking fuels, Cough, Crops, DTP vaccines, Dermatitis, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Employment, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family size, Fatigue, Fever, Headache, Health care access, Health care prices, Health care use, Health facilities, Height, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Hours worked, Household water treatment, Housing materials, Immunization, Income, Injuries, Insecticide-treated bednets, Iodine supplements, Iron supplements, Jaundice, Literacy, Livestock, Lower respiratory infections, Malnutrition, Marital status, Mass media, Measles vaccines, Night blindness, Obesity, Occupational injuries, Oral rehydration therapy, Pain, Parental survival, Pharmacies, Poisonings, Polio vaccines, Pregnancy, Pruritus, Road traffic injuries, Sanitation, School enrollment, Seizures, Self-inflicted injuries, Skilled birth attendants, Skin diseases, Summary birth history, Symptoms, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Trichuriasis, Unintentional injuries, Urinary diseases, Vaccination cards, Varicella, Vision loss, Vitamin A supplements, Vomiting, Water supply, Weight, Whooping cough
GHDx Entry last modified on: Sep 12, 2023