NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Original or alternative title Enquête Démographique et de Santé au Sénégal 1986 Provider Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)Microdata access: Request Geography Senegal (SEN) Coverage type Country Time period covered 04/1986 - 07/1986 Series or system DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) DHS Program Surveys Data type Survey: HouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representativeVerbal autopsy Summary The 1986 Senegal Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) is part of Phase 1 of the DHS series, a comprehensive, nationally representative survey. The survey covered population, education, health, nutrition, family planning, and household characteristics. A total of 5,000 women ages 15 to 49 and 1000 children aged 6-36 months were included in the sample. Keywords Adult mortality, Adverse effects of medical treatments, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antibiotics, Antimalarials, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth control pills, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Caesarean section, Child anthropometry, Child mortality, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Employment, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female infertility, Fertility, Fever, Health care access, Health care use, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Height, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hygiene, IUDs, Immunization, Infant mortality, Influenza, Injectable contraceptives, Land ownership, Lighting, Literacy, Live births, Malaria, Male infertility, Malnutrition, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Maternal age, Maternal mortality, Measles, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Menstruation, Mortality, Multiple births, Neonatal conditions, Nutrition, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, Parental survival, Pharmacies, Polio vaccines, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, Sanitation, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Skilled birth attendants, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Vaccination cards, Verbal autopsy, Vomiting, Water supply, Weight, Whooping cough Citation Contributors Westinghouse; Institute for Resource Development Department of Statistics (Senegal) Funders United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Publisher ICF International Suggested citation Department of Statistics (Senegal), Westinghouse; Institute for Resource Development. Senegal Demographic and Health Survey 1986. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International. GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 19, 2022