TYPE 2.

DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEY

• Since 1984, the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Project has provided technical assistance to more
than 75 countries in conducting more than 200 demographic and health surveys.
• In 1997, DHS became one of four components of the “Monitoring and Evaluation to Assess and Use Results”
(MEASURE) Program.
• The MEASURE DHS Project has gained a worldwide reputation for collecting and disseminating accurate,
nationally representative data about health and population in developing countries.
• The project is implemented by Macro International Inc., which is funded by the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) with contributions from other donors such as UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO,
UNAIDS.
• Programs, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Blue Raster, and The Futures Institute –
to expand access to, and use of, DHS data.
• DHS surveys collect information about fertility, reproductive health, maternal health, child health,
immunisation and survival, HIV/AIDS, maternal mortality, child mortality, malaria, and women and
children’s nutrition.
• The strategic objective of MEASURE DHS is to improve upon and institutionalize the collection and use of
data by host countries for program monitoring and evaluation and for policy development decisions.
PURPOSE

• To provide feasible, valid and reliable health care systems

• Help advance global understanding of health and population
trends in developing countries.
• Collecting accurate datas about health
• Health policies are implemented to where ever required as per the
analysis of the survey data
TYPE 3. POPULATION CENSUS

• The oldest type of household survey with the broadest coverage is the “population census”.
• By international agreement, censuses collect data about the entire population in a specified area at a
regularly marked time interval.
• Each person is asked questions about personal characteristics such as age, sex, marital status,
education and employment status.
• Population censuses are carried out once every 10 years in most of the countries, or once every five
years in some economically advanced countries. As such, the census is the most comprehensive source
of demographic and socio-economic data for several countries.
• Although the main objective of a census is to get reliable population data, the latest United Nations
guidelines for preparing population censuses emphasize the need to collect data about literacy, school
attendance, educational attainment, field of study and educational qualifications.
PURPOSE
• Population censuses can therefore provides data about the
number and composition of the entire population at a given point
in time, and selected socio-economic and educational
characteristics of households and individual persons in the
country.
• Since the census collects data from every household in the
country, it can provide valuable information for policies and the
planning of socio-economic development from national down
tolocal administrative levels.
• Moreover, census is the main source and basis for constructing
sampling frames for selecting households and population for
other surveys.