Data (standard survey name)/source | Time intervals | Typical spatial coverage | Typical strata | Relevant variables |
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Census | Â | Â | Â | Â |
National Statistical Offices | Typically 10 years | Census enumerator area or courser level | Urban/rural, race or ethnic groups (often) | Sex, age, education, migration status, household and dwelling characteristics |
Census Microdata | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Typically 10 years | Admin 1-3 | Urban/rural | Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, migration status, children ever born, children surviving | |
DHS (Demographic and Health Survey) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Household, women 15–49, men 15–59, children born in the last five years |  |  |  |  |
Varies by country, typically every 5 years | National, Admin 1/region, GPS coordinates of cluster locations for most recent surveys (last 15 years) | Urban/rural | Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, maternal and child health, fertility and full birth history, family planning, domestic violence, biomarkers, nutrition | |
MICS (Multi-indicator cluster survey) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
UNICEF (Round 2, 1999–2001; round 3 2005–2007; round 4 is in the field 2009–present) | National, Admin 1 | Urban/rural | Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, status, maternal and child health, child labor, domestic violence, summary birth history, anthropometry | |
LSMS (Living Standard Measure Survey) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
(Integrated Household Budget Survey and many others that are locally adapted) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Irregular | National, Admin 1, some GPS coordinates | Urban/rural | Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, migration status,consumption, expenditures, income, nutrition,anthropometry, summary birth history | |
MIS (Malaria Indicator Survey) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
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Varies by country, typically every 3 years | National, Admin 1/region, GPS coordinates of cluster locations for some surveys (last five years) | Urban/rural | Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, biomarkers | |
AIS (AIDS Indicator Survey) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Varies by country, typically every 3 years | National, Admin 1/region, GPS coordinates of cluster locations for some surveys (last eight years) | Urban/rural | Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, biomarkers | |
DHS (Demographic and Health Survey) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Household, women 15–49, men 15–59, children born in the last five years |  |  |  |  |
Varies by country, typically every 5 years | National, Admin 1/region, GPS coordinates of cluster locations for most recent surveys (last 15 years) | Urban/rural | Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, maternal and child health, fertility and full birth history, family planning, domestic violence, biomarkers, nutrition | |
MICS (Multi-indicator cluster survey) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
UNICEF (Round 2, 1999–2001; round 3 2005–2007; round 4 is in the field 2009-present) | National, Admin 1 | Urban/rural | Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, status, maternal and child health, child labor, domestic violence, summary birth history, anthropometry | |
LSMS (Living Standard Measure Survey) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
(Integrated Household Budget Survey and many others that are locally adapted) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Irregular | National, Admin 1, some GPS coordinates | Urban/rural | Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, migration status, consumption, expenditures, income, nutrition, anthropometry, summary birth history | |
MIS (Malaria Indicator Survey) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
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Varies by country, typically every 3 years | National, Admin 1/region, GPS coordinates of cluster locations for some surveys (last five years) | Urban/rural | Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, biomarkers | |
AIS (AIDS Indicator Survey) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Varies by country, typically every 3 years | National, Admin 1/region, GPS coordinates of cluster locations for some surveys (last eight years) | Urban/rural | Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, biomarkers |