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The Impact of the AIDS Pandemic on Health Services in Africa: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 675–697.
Published: 06 May 2011
...Anne Case; Christina Paxson Abstract We document the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS-related health services in 14 sub-Saharan African countries. Using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for each country, we examine antenatal care, birth deliveries, and rates...
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View articletitled, The Impact of the AIDS Pandemic on <span class="search-highlight">Health</span> Services in Africa: Evidence from <span class="search-highlight">Demographic</span> and <span class="search-highlight">Health</span> <span class="search-highlight">Surveys</span>
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Sampling Weights for Analyses of Couple Data: Example of the Demographic and Health Surveys
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1447–1473.
Published: 02 July 2018
... derived. We present a method of estimating appropriate weights for couples that extends methods currently used in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for individual weights. To see how results vary, we analyze 1912 estimates (means; proportions; linear regression; and simple and multinomial logistic...
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Depends Who's Asking: Interviewer Effects in Demographic and Health Surveys Abortion Data
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 31–50.
Published: 01 February 2021
... of this study is to assess how interviewers affect the probability of women reporting abortions in nationally representative household surveys: Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). We use cross-classified random intercepts at the level of the interviewer and the sampling cluster in a Bayesian framework...
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View articletitled, Depends Who's Asking: Interviewer Effects in <span class="search-highlight">Demographic</span> and <span class="search-highlight">Health</span> <span class="search-highlight">Surveys</span> Abortion Data
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Adult mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from demographic and health surveys
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 757–772.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Ian M. Timæus; Momodou Jasseh Abstract This article reports levels, trends, and age patterns of adult mortality in 23 sub-Saharan Africa countries, based on the sibling histories and orphanhood data collected by the countries’ Demographic and Health Surveys. Adult mortality has risen sharply since...
View articletitled, Adult mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from <span class="search-highlight">demographic</span> and <span class="search-highlight">health</span> <span class="search-highlight">surveys</span>
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in Misreporting Month of Birth: Diagnosis and Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Developing Countries
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Published: 28 January 2019
Fig. 4 Number of births by age in months. DHS = Demographic and Health Surveys. Vertical guidelines show round ages. Source: DHS data for 990,231 children from 62 countries, various years.
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1427–1454.
Published: 01 October 2024
... .032 Notes: The data come from the 2018 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey–Syrian Sample. The sample includes all women aged 15–49 and is formatted for a discrete-time duration analysis in which each period is one age and failure is marriage. The event history for all women starts at age 10...
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View articletitled, Intergenerational Power Shift and the Rise of Nonarranged Marriages Among Refugees
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Water, Sanitation, and Child Health: Evidence From Subnational Panel Data in 59 Countries
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 729–752.
Published: 28 February 2019
... of the limitations of both literatures, we construct a panel of 442 subnational regions in 59 countries with multiple Demographic Health Surveys. Using this large subnational panel, we implement difference-in-difference regressions that allow us to examine whether longer-term changes in water and sanitation...
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View articletitled, Water, Sanitation, and Child <span class="search-highlight">Health</span>: Evidence From Subnational Panel Data in 59 Countries
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Microcredit and Domestic Violence in Bangladesh: An Exploration of Selection Bias Influences
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1819–1843.
Published: 10 July 2013
... are members. These results, however, may be attributable to selection bias because members might differ from nonmembers in ways that make them more susceptible to violence to begin with. Using a sample of currently married women from the 2007 Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey (BDHS) ( N = 4,195), we use...
View articletitled, Microcredit and Domestic Violence in Bangladesh: An Exploration of Selection Bias Influences
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The Effect of Schooling on Women's Overweight and Obesity: A Natural Experiment in Nigeria
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 685–710.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of being overweight or obese in an LMIC, Nigeria, using data from the 2003, 2008, and 2013 Demographic Health Surveys. In 1976, the Nigerian government abolished primary school fees and increased funding for primary school construction, creating quasi-random variation in access to primary school according...
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Graphical representation of discontinuity for Malawi, Uganda, and Ethiopia....
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in Does Schooling Affect Women’s Desired Fertility? Evidence From Malawi, Uganda, and Ethiopia
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Published: 08 May 2015
Fig. 1 Graphical representation of discontinuity for Malawi, Uganda, and Ethiopia. Source: Demographic Health Survey
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International Fertility Change: New Data and Insights From the Developmental Idealism Framework
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 677–698.
Published: 09 March 2012
... : University of North Carolina Press . El-Zanaty F. , & Way A. ( 2006 ). Egypt demographic and health survey 2005 . Ministry of Health and Population, National Population Council . Cairo, Egypt : El-Zanaty and Associates and ORC Macro . Fricke T. ( 1997 ). The uses of culture...
View articletitled, International Fertility Change: New Data and Insights From the Developmental Idealism Framework
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Household structure and childhood immunization in Niger and Nigeria
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Demography (1997) 34 (2): 295–309.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Anastasia J. Gage; A. Elisabeth Sommerfelt; Andrea L. Piani Abstract In this study, we use data from the Demographic and Health Surveys to examine the relationship between household structure and childhood immunization in Niger and Nigeria. We show that household structure is an important...
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The Demographic Transition in Southern Africa: Yet Another Look at the Evidence from Botswana and Zimbabwe
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Demography (1994) 31 (2): 209–215.
Published: 01 May 1994
... Transition in Southern Africa: Yet Another Look at the Evidence from Botswana and Zimbabwe* Ann K. Blanc Shea O. Rutstein Demographic and Health Surveys Program Macro International Inc. 11785 Beltsville Dr. Calverton, MD 20705 Fertility trends in sub-Saharan Africa have been the subject of much recent...
View articletitled, The <span class="search-highlight">Demographic</span> Transition in Southern Africa: Yet Another Look at the Evidence from Botswana and Zimbabwe
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Trends and determinants of contraceptive use in Kenya
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Demography (1991) 28 (1): 83–99.
Published: 01 February 1991
...Wamucii Njogu Abstract This study uses the 1977-1978 Kenya Fertility Survey and the 1989 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey to examine trends and determinants of contraceptive use in Kenya. A substantial increase in contraceptive use occurred in Kenya over the decade. Yet although the increase...
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Using survey data to assess neonatal tetanus mortality levels and trends in developing countries
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 459–475.
Published: 01 August 1993
...J. Ties Boerma; George Stroh Abstract Demographic and health surveys are a useful source of information on the levels and trends of neonatal mortality in developing countries. Such surveys provide data on mortality occurring at 4–14 days of life, which is a sensitive indicator of neonatal tetanus...
View articletitled, Using <span class="search-highlight">survey</span> data to assess neonatal tetanus mortality levels and trends in developing countries
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PMTCT scale-up and infant mortality in Zambia. Data on the cumulative numbe...
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in Can Disease-Specific Funding Harm Health? in the Shadow of HIV/AIDS Service Expansion
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Published: 14 September 2015
rate as the fraction of adult females in a given household survey round who live within 20km of a health clinic offering PMTCT at the time of that survey round. The household surveys are the 2001 Demographic Health Survey (DHS), 2003 Zambia Sexual Behavior Survey (ZSBS), 2005 ZSBS, and 2007 DHS. Data
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in The Effect of Schooling on Women's Overweight and Obesity: A Natural Experiment in Nigeria
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Published: 01 April 2021
, 2 = secondary education, and 3 = postsecondary education. See Figure A1 in the online appendix for an additional figure showing changes to secondary and postsecondary education. Source: Demographic Health Surveys Nigeria (2003, 2008, and 2013).
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in Impact of Free/Subsidized Secondary School Education on the Likelihood of Teenage Motherhood
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Published: 01 August 2021
Fig. 2 Teenage birth rates by year of birth. Data are from the 2014 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey.
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Organized Violence and Institutional Child Delivery: Micro-Level Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa, 1989–2014
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1295–1316.
Published: 13 June 2018
... whether women give birth in a health facility. We combine geocoded data on violent events from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program with georeferenced survey data on the use of maternal health care services from the Demographic and Health Surveys. Our sample covers 569,201 births by 390,574 mothers in 31...
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View articletitled, Organized Violence and Institutional Child Delivery: Micro-Level Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa, 1989–2014
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in Impact of Free/Subsidized Secondary School Education on the Likelihood of Teenage Motherhood
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Published: 01 August 2021
Fig. 4 Teenage birth rates by household wealth index. Data are from the 2014 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey.
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