NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)Microdata access: Register Geography Malawi (MWI) Coverage type Country Time period covered 06/2010 - 11/2010 Series or system DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) DHS Program Surveys Data type Survey: Cross-sectionalGPS coordinates (GIS)HouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representativeSubnationally representativeUrban-rural representative Summary The Malawi Demographic and Health Survey 2010 is part of phase 6 of the DHS series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Covers population, education, health, nutrition, family planning and household characteristics. This survey included HIV testing and reports on the anemia status of women age 15-49 and children age 6-59 months. Other topics covered include fertility levels, marital status, fertility preferences, knowledge and use of family planning methods, breastfeeding practices, nutritional status of mothers and children, childhood illnesses and mortality, use of maternal and child health services, maternal mortality, and domestic violence. A total of 24,825 households were surveyed, including responses from 23,020 female and 7,175 male respondents. Keywords Abortion, Abortive outcome, Absenteeism, Adult mortality, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Antibiotics, Antihelminthics, Antimalarials, Antimotility drugs, Antiretroviral therapy, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Blood tests, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Child anthropometry, Child health care, Child mortality, Childhood sexual violence, Circumcision, Community health clinics, Complete birth history, Condoms, Congestion, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Domestic violence, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Emergency contraception, Employment, Secondhand smoke, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female infertility, Fertility, Fever, Gynecological diseases, HIV and AIDS, Health care access, Health care costs, Health care personnel, Health care use, Health education, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Height, Hemoglobin, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Household deaths, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hygiene, IUDs, Immunization, Indoor residual spraying, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Injections, Insecticide-treated bednets, Intentional injuries, Interpersonal violence, Intimate partner violence, Iodine supplements, Iron supplements, Land ownership, Languages, Lighting, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Living conditions, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Male infertility, Malnutrition, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Maternal anthropometry, Maternal care, Maternal morbidity, Maternal mortality, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Menstruation, Mining, Mortality, Multiple births, Neonatal conditions, Obstetric fistulas, Obstructed labor, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, PMTCT, Parental survival, Pentavalent vaccines, Pharmacies, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Pregnancy complications, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Public social assistance, Refrigeration, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Sexual violence, Skilled birth attendants, Smokeless tobacco use, Summary birth history, Teachers, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Tuberculosis, Upper respiratory infections, Vaccination cards, Vector control, Violence, Vitamin A supplements, Water supply, Weight, Zinc, Stillbirths, Complete sibling history Citation Contributors ICF Macro National Statistical Office of Malawi Funders United States Agency for International Development (USAID) National AIDS Commission (Malawi) United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Department for International Development (DFiD) (United Kingdom) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Publisher ICF International Suggested citation ICF Macro, National Statistical Office of Malawi. Malawi Demographic and Health Survey 2010. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International. GHDx Entry last modified on: Oct 11, 2024