Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey - 2013

Nigeria
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: 10,000+

Sex:

Females and Males

Age Range:

15-19
20-24

Study Design:

Observational

Type of Data:

Cross-sectional

Time Period: 2013; 2008; 2003; 1990

Areas Covered: Nationally Representative

Investigators: Nigeria National Population Commission (NPC); ICF International; ICF Macro; ORC Macro; Nigeria Federal Office of Statistics; IRD/Macro International

Funders: USAID; UK Department for International Development (DFID); UNFPA; U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

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. Males are included in the 1990 survey round only. Number of adolescents is summed across all survey rounds.

Topics

Demographic Characteristics - Urban and Rural;

Economics - Employment;

Education - Grade attainment/attendance, Learning;

Family/Household Structure;

Gender Attitudes/Beliefs - Endorsement of violence against women, 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, Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting, Fertility, Sexual behavior;

Time Use;

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