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Appendix F: Recommendations for the Demographic and Health Surveys
Pages 503-506

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... If it is feasible to do so, these city size codings should be applied throughout each survey in, for example, questions referring to childhood and other previous residences. City population sizes The population sizes of all cities of 100,000 and above should be listed, city by city, in the First Country Report, organized according to the most disaggregated regional classification given in the dataset.
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From page 504...
... An authorization mechanism should be developed that would allow researchers to apply for permission to use geographically detailed identifiers for earlier DHS surveys, which are not covered in the new system. This mechanism might take the form of a two-level permission system whereby: · Some authorized researchers would have access to a data file linking sampling cluster codes to city names, thus permitting use of complementary city-level data in their analyses.
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From page 505...
... Urban community modules At present, DHS community surveys and inventories of public services and clinics are fielded mainly in rural communities. Urban communities and neighborhoods are more difficult to define than rural, and some believe that urban communities are so much better supplied with reproductive health (and other)
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From page 506...
... 506 CITIES TRANSFORMED TABLE E-2 Urban Migrant-Nonmigrant Differences in Poverty and Access to Services, by Type of Origin Area and Region I, DHS Surveys in Region Nosh Africa Surveys Disadvantage, city origin Disadvantage, town origin Disadvantage, rural origin Sub-Saharan Africa Surveys Disadvantage, city origin Disadvantage, town origin Disadvantage, rural origin Southeast Asia Surveys Disadvantage, city origin Disadvantage, town origin Disadvantage, rural origin South, Central, West Asia Surveys Disadvantage, city origin Disadvantage, town origin Disadvantage, rural origin Latin America Surveys Disadvantage, city origin Disadvantage, town origin Disadvantage, rural origin TOTALS Surveys Disadvantage, city origin Disadvantage, town origin Disadvantage, rural origin Access to Relatively Piped or Poor In-homeWater Access to Flush Access to Toilet Electricity 6 o 33 11 4 2 2 15 6 11 65 s 10 33 3 o o o 32 o 9 4 O O o o o o 29 o o 11 3 o o o 31 o 11 O O s O O O O o 12 13 1 0 0 0 1 1 5 7 4 3 o o 2 0 56 2 o 14 54 45 O O 2 15 20 NaITE: Estimates and tests from probit models, adjusted for city size and woman's age.
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Key Terms

  • city size
  • reproductive health
  • urban community
  • dhs program
  • migration status

  • file linking
  • size categories
  • population sizes
  • water supply
  • urban communities

  • sampling cluster
  • community modules
  • linking sampling
  • dhs surveys
  • cluster codes

  • authorized researchers
  • urban residents
  • money costs
  • community surveys
  • urban populations

  • regional classification
  • rural populations
  • organized according
  • neither access
  • individual interviews

  • authorization mechanism
  • city names
  • current dhs
  • dhs location
  • dhs community


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