MEASURE DHS makes available a wide variety of publication types.

Final Reports

• DHS Final Reports (210)
  Final reports are produced for most DHS surveys. Comprehensive survey results are published in the DHS Final Reports approximately 8-12 months after the completion of fieldwork. Standard reports are approximately 200 pages in length and include, but are not limited to, topics such as: household and respondent characteristics, fertility and family planning, maternal and child health, nutrition, and HIV/AIDS.
  
  

• AIS Final Reports (6)
  Final reports are produced for most AIS surveys. Comprehensive survey results are published in the AIS Final Reports approximately 8-12 months after the completion of the field work. Standard reports are about 100 pages long and include, but are not limited to, data on HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes and related behaviours, and, in some cases, HIV prevalence.
  
  

• SPA Final Reports (15)
  Service Provision Assessment (SPA) Surveys- Reports on surveys conducted in health facilities in developing countries to obtain information about the quality, infrastructure, utilization, and availability of various services. Surveys are conducted through observation and interviews with providers and, in some cases, clients. Currently SPA surveys focus on two major service areas: Maternal and Child Health and HIV/AIDS.
  
  

• MIS Final Reports (5)
  MIS Final Report
  
  

• Other Final Reports (21)
  Final reports are produced for most DHS surveys. Comprehensive survey results are published in the DHS Final Reports approximately 8-12 months after the completion of fieldwork. Standard reports are approximately 200 pages in length and include, but are not limited to, topics such as: household and respondent characteristics, fertility and family planning, maternal and child health, nutrition, and HIV/AIDS.
  
  

Dissemination Materials

• Summary Reports/Key Findings (161)
  Summary Reports provide a colorful synopsis of the more comprehensive DHS Final Report and highlight key findings from each country's survey. In most cases, they are published in the language of the country, and are designed for use by policy makers and program planners in the survey countries.
  
  

• General Fact Sheets (15)
  General fact sheets summarize the major results of DHS or AIS surveys in a brochure format. They usually show the most important 8 indicators in chart form and often include an 11”x17” table of the key indicators broken down by residence (urban/rural) and region.
  
  

• HIV Fact Sheets (29)
  HIV fact sheets are published for most countries that include HIV prevalence testing in their DHS or AIS surveys. HIV fact sheets show, in brochure format, the major HIV prevalence indicators, including prevalence by residence, sex, age, and education. Data are shown in charts, and accompanying by explanatory text.
  
  

• Other Fact Sheets (13)
  Other fact sheets are based on national DHS data, and are designed to focus on either a specific region in that country of a specific topic of interest, such as Fertility or Gender.
  
  

• Other Dissemination Materials (15)
  MEASURE DHS often receives special requests from countries for non-standard dissemination items. These include topic-specific booklets, policy briefs, curricula, and other educational materials.
  
  

• Dissemination CD (15)
  Survey Dissemination CD's contain information about the planning and scheduling of fieldwork, participating personnel, and samples; files related to data processing, recoded data files (in a variety of formats); questionnaires, manuals, reports, and national seminar presentations that were part of the original survey. If the data are included on this CD, a password is required and can be obtained by request from the data archivist (archive@measuredhs.com).
  
  

• Policy Briefs (5)
  Policy Briefs
  
  

Qualitative Research

• Qualitative Research Studies (16)
  DHS Qualitative Research Studies are designed to increase the validity and reliability of surveys, to examine the social contects of issue of topical interest, and demonstrate how qualitative and quantitative approaches can be productively linked.
  
  

Analytical and Comparative Series

• Analytical Studies (30)
  Analytical studies emphasize policy and program-relevant themes and research questions. Although these analyses typically involve use of DHS data from fewer countries than comparative reports, most are multi-country in approach so as to allow broad interpretation.
  
  

• Comparative Reports (55)
  Comparative reports are descriptive in their approach, contrasting findings from many countries to search for trends and patterns in important health and population indicators. The reports serve largely as reference documents and typically draw on all available DHS (and sometimes other) data collected over a recent time period.
  
  

• Further Analysis (67)
  Further Analysis Reports provide results emanating from research that is typically based in and on a single DHS country. The projects usually entail collaborative work with host country representatives and are designed with two objectives: 1) to build local capacity and 2) to provide Further Analysis Reports that inform the reader about key program and policy issues within a host country.
  
  

• Trend Reports (6)
  Analyses of trends in fertility, family planning, and health in selected DHS countries with multiple surveys.
  
  

Nutrition Reports

• Africa Nutrition Chartbooks (22)
  The Africa Nutrition Chartbooks provide a series of charts depicting the nutritional status of women and children and related health and demographic indicators and differentials in selected African countries.
  
  

• Other Nutrition Reports (4)
  Includes updates on key international indicators of infant and young child feeding and micronutrients along with reports on technical nutrition data collection tools
  
  

Geographic Studies

• Geographic Studies (14)
  Geographic Studies combine the detailed geographic data collected in DHS surveys with other DHS data to provide spatial analysis of key demographic and health topics.
  
  

Papers and Other Documents

• Methodological Reports (6)
  Methodological Reports cover issues relating to the collection and analysis of DHS data, particularly focusing on new types of data. The reports offer insight on the successes and shortcoming of various approaches, and they offer recommendations for future data collection activities.
  
  

• Occasional Papers (5)
  A series of five analyses of DHS I and DHS II data covering selected data quality and country-specifics topics
  
  

• Working Papers (78)
  A series of 23 country-specific and further analysis studies utilizing DHS-I, DHS-II, and DHS-III data.
  
  

• Other Documents (44)
  Various publications based on DHS data including regional reports, regional workshop reports, cross-national studies of special topics, and selected nonstandard country surveys.
  
  

Survey and Data Methodology

• DHS Questionnaires and Manuals (18)
  Documents rquired for conducting a DHS.
  
  

• AIS Questionnaires and Manuals (11)
  Documents required for conducting an AIS.
  
  

• SPA Questionnaires (3)
  Documents Required for Conducting a SPA survey.
  
  

MEASURE DHS Outreach

• Dimensions Newsletters (15)
  DHS Dimensions is published twice a year by the MEASURE DHS project. It provides information about the program, its activities and publications, and the current status of DHS surveys.
  
  

• HIV Notes (9)
  HIV Notes is published quarterly or more often to provide information about HIV-related activities and survey results from the MEASURE DHS project.