Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Miriam King and Matthew Sobek. IPUMS-Demographic and Health Surveys: Version 11 [dataset]. IPUMS and ICF, 2024. https://doi.org/10.18128/D080.V11
DESCRIPTION
The IPUMS DHS project harmonizes Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data and documentation for Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia to facilitate comparative research across time and countries. The DHS are a primary source of information on health in low- and middle-income countries. IPUMS DHS is designed to facilitate analysis of DHS data across time and space. IPUMS DHS adds value to the original DHS samples in the following ways: variables are coded consistently across countries and over time; web-based search and discovery tools display variable availability across surveys; documentation is organized on a cross-survey, variable-specific basis; and researchers can merge files and create customized datasets using a web dissemination system, at no cost. IPUMS DHS includes a wide range of health-related topics for women of childbearing age, the women's births and young children, non-elderly men, and household members of all ages. IPUMS DHS also includes another unit of analysis, woman-months, which simplifies analyzing retrospective calendar data on births, pregnancies, pregnancy terminations, and contraceptive use.
DATA
Data are available by request to registered IPUMS-DHS users. Please contact [email protected]. Archived versions of the data have been stored in fixed format files with accompanying documentation and set-up files. The full data set has been broken into appropriate subsets reflecting the content and usage of the data.
REVISION HISTORY
IPUMS-DHS data are continually revised. We archive annual snapshots. The changes made to Version 10 before we archived Version 11 occurred between 8-20-2024 and 04-27-2026.