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Malawi Population and Housing Census 2008 - IPUMS

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General Info
Provider 
IPUMS
Microdata access: Register
Geography 
Malawi (MWI)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
06/2008 - 06/2008
Series or system 
International Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Data type
Census:
  • De facto
  • De jure
  • Nationally representative
  • Subnationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

Censuses provide population numbers, household or family size and composition, and information on sex and age distribution. They often include other demographic, economic and health-related topics as well. The 2008 Malawi de facto and de jure census collected data through face-to-face interviews on the subjects of housing, household demographics, employment for those 6 and older, fertility for women 12 and older, migration, disability, household deaths, and education. Fieldwork was done June 1 - 21, 2008. A 10% sample of households from the census (1,343,078 individuals) is available through IPUMS International at the University of Minnesota. Dwellings and vacant units are not identified in the microdata sample. Refer to the IPUMS website for guidelines on citing database versions.

Keywords 
Assets, Birth certificates, Birth place, Child labor, Congenital anomalies, Cooking fuels, Disability, Domestic migration, Education, Electricity, Employment, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family size, Fertility, Hearing loss, Household air pollution, Household deaths, Household water treatment, Housing, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Insecticide-treated bednets, International migration, Languages, Literacy, Live births, Marital status, Marriage age, Maternal mortality, Mortality, Occupation codes, Occupations, Parental survival, Population, Religion, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sense organ diseases, Summary birth history, Telephones, Transportation, Unintentional injuries, Vision loss, Water supply
GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 5, 2021