Comoros Demographic and Health Survey - 2012

Comoros
Sub-Saharan Africa

Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are nationally representative household surveys that provide data for a wide range of monitoring and impact evaluation indicators in the areas of population, health, and nutrition.

Study Website

Adolescents: 2,500-4,999

Sex:

Females and Males

Age Range:

15-19
20-24

Study Design:

Observational

Type of Data:

Cross-sectional

Time Period: 2012; 1996

Areas Covered: Nationally Representative

Investigators: Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement de Comores; Commissariat Général au Plan des Comores; Direction Générale de la Statistique et de la Prospective des Comores (DGSP); ICF Intrernational; Centre Nationale de Documentation et de Recherche Scientifique des Comores; Macro International

Funders: Government of the Union of the Comoros; UNICEF; UN System; UNFPA

Series:

Demographic and Health Surveys

Notes: Investigators/organizations vary across survey rounds. Not all funders provided funding for all survey rounds. Age range varies across survey rounds. Age range taken from most recent survey. Number of adolescents is summed across all survey rounds.

Topics

Demographic Characteristics - Urban and Rural;

Economics - Employment;

Education - Grade attainment/attendance, Learning;

Endorsement of violence against women;

Family/Household Structure;

Gender role beliefs;

Health Care Access and Utilization;

HIV/AIDS and STIs - Knowledge, Testing;

Marriage;

Physical Health - Nutrition, Self-reported health;

Reproductive Health - Family planning/contraception, Fertility, Sexual behavior;

Time Use;

Tobacco/Alcohol/Drug Use;

Violence - Emotional/psychological violence, Physical violence, Sexual violence;