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Nigeria: Standard DHS, 2008
Country: Nigeria
Contract Phase: DHS-V
Implementing Organization: National Population Commission
Fieldwork: June 2008 - October 2008
Status: Completed
Respondents:
MaleFemale
(All Men)
Age: 15 to 59
Sample Size: 15486 		(All Women)
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 33385
FacilitiesHouseholds
Sample Size: [n/a] Sample Size: 34070
Survey Characteristics:
  • Alcohol Consumption
  • Anthropometry
  • Birth Registration
  • Causes of Death
  • Domestic Violence
  • Female Genital Cutting
  • Fistula Questions
  • GPS/Georeferenced–Global Positioning System or Georeferenced Data
  • HIV Behavior
  • HIV Knowledge–Questions assess knowledge/sources of knowledge/ways to avoid HIV
  • Iodine salt test
  • Malaria Module (bednets)
  • Malaria/Bednet Questions
  • Maternal Mortality
  • Men's Survey
  • Micronutrients
  • OVC
  • Social Marketing
  • TB Questions
  • Tobacco Use
  • Verbal Autopsy
  • Women's Status–Questions: women's autonomy (household decisionmaking/free movement/access money) & Dom. violence
Data Files:
Survey Datasets GPS Datasets HIV Testing
Data Available Data Available Not Collected
Publications:
 ID Title
DHS Final Reports
FR222 Nigeria 2008 DHS Final Report (English)
Summary Reports/Key Findings
SR173 Nigeria 2008 Key Findings (English)
General Fact Sheets
GF15 Nigeria DHS 2008 Fact Sheet (English)
Other Fact Sheets
OF12 Nigeria Zonal Fact Sheets (Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba) (English)
Press Releases:
 Date Title
11/24/09 Children fully immunised in Nigeria nearly doubles in five years, but more than one-quarter receive no immunisations
 
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