Transcript Nadi, Fiji, 4 – 8 August 2014 - United Nations Statistics Division

INDICATORS SOURCED FROM DEMOGRAPHIC
HEALTH SURVEY (DHS)
Programme session 7
Presentation by Kaobari Matikarai,
SPC Statistics for Development Division
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Brief history of Macro type DHS in the
Pacific;
DHS standard objectives;
DHS standard instruments;
Key indicators;
1. Macro type DHS in the Pacific
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PNG 1996 and 2006
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SPC/ADB/Macro DHS Pilot countries:
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Solomon Islands 2006/2007
Marshall Islands 2007
Tuvalu islands 2008
Nauru 2008
Samoa 2009 and 2014
1. Macro type DHS in the Pacific
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SPC support
◦ Kiribati 2009
◦ Tonga 2012
◦ Vanuatu DHS-MICS 2013
Future DHS in the Pacific
 Solomon 2nd round DHS/MICS in 2015
 Fiji islands DHS/MICS 2015
2. Standard DHS Objectives:
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Institutional capacity building at the NSO. The capacity of the NSO
to plan, conduct, process, analyse and disseminate data from
complex, large-scale surveys such as the DHS is strengthened;
Providing estimates of intercensal population size and growth at the
national, as well as lower levels where appropriate.
Providing information on the basic demographic characteristics and
processes of the population at the national and lower levels where
appropriate;
Obtain the following information:
◦ reproductive health, fertility preferences and family planning of the
population;
◦ access to and use of health services and facilities;
◦ health status of the population, particularly mother and child health; and
Contributing to the ever-expanding international database on
demographic and health related indicators.
3. DHS Standard Instruments:
Three Questionnaires are administered –
questionnaires based on the model questionnaire
for low contraceptive prevalence countries from
the international DHS programme of USAID and
contracted to MACRO International Inc.
1. Household questionnaire (all selected hhds)
2. Woman questionnaire (women 15-49)
3. Man questionnaire (men 15+)
3. DHS Standard Instruments:
In the Household questionnaire, the following are collected:
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Demographic information of household usual members and visitors
(age, sex, marital status, education, etc)
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Survivorship and residence of children’s biological parents, mother and
primary care of child, birth registration of children aged 0-4 years
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Birth registration (children 0-5years)
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Disability (5 years and over) – DHS/MICS
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Child labour (5-14 years), child discipline (1-14 years) – DHS/MICS
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Health expenditure – (Tonga DHS)
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Housing/household characteristics (sanitation, no.of rooms, etc)
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Bio-measurements & anaemia test for children aged 0-5 years, women
15-49 and measurement of men aged 15 years and over
3. DHS Standard Instruments:
Woman’s Questionnaire collects information on:
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Woman’s demographic information (age, sex, marital status, education, etc)
Reproduction (no. of children, alive and dead, etc)
Contraception (knowledge, use, source, discontinuation, cost, etc…)
Pregnancy and post natal care (no.of antenatal care, place of birth, etc)
Child immunization and health; child and woman’s nutrition
Marriage and sexual activity
Fertility preferences
Husband’s background and work
HIV/AIDS –knowledge and stigma, STIs
Malaria
Other health issues - Tuberculosis, smoking, injections, drug use, salt
usage, etc…
12. Women’s income and empowerment
3. DHS Standard Instruments:
Man questionnaire collects information on:
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Man’s demographic information (age, sex, marital status,
education, etc)
Reproduction (no. of children, alive and dead, etc)
Contraception (knowledge, use, source, discontinuation,
cost, etc…)
Marriage and sexual activity
Fertility preferences
Husband’s background and work
HIV/AIDS –knowledge and stigma, STIs
Malaria
Other health issues - Tuberculosis, smoking, injections,
drug use, salt usage, etc…
3. DHS Standard Instruments:
Other modules which can be included in the
questionnaires includes:
1. Domestic violence (included in Nauru 2008 DHS
and Tuvalu DHS 2007)
2. Maternal mortality (included in the two PNG DHSs)
3. Environmental health
4. Others….
4. Key indicators from Vanuatu DHS – MICS
2013
4. Key indicators from Vanuatu DHS – MICS
2013
4. Key indicators from Vanuatu DHS – MICS
2013
4. Key indicators from Vanuatu DHS – MICS
2013
4. Key indicators from Vanuatu DHS – MICS
2013
4. Key indicators from Vanuatu DHS – MICS
2013
4. Key indicators from Vanuatu DHS – MICS
2013
4. Key indicators from Vanuatu DHS – MICS
2013
4. DHS results and indicators
Figure 1. Knowledge and current use of any family planning methods among all women aged 15-49 years
4. DHS results and indicators
Figure 1. Teenage pregnancy and childbearing - proportion of women aged 15-19 years who had begun
childbearing
4. DHS results and indicators
Figure 3. Proportion of women aged 15-19 years who had births in the last five years with the type of
antenatal care
KAM RABA
MERCI TUMAS