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Demographic & Health Surveys (DHS)
Household survey program with health, demographic, and geocoded survey resources for many low- and middle-income countries.
Dataset summary
- Provider
- The DHS Program
- Spatial coverage
- Global (90+ countries)
- Temporal coverage
- 1985-present
- Spatial resolution
- Household
- Temporal resolution
- ----
- Formats
- CSV, SPSS
- Climate variable tags
- Land Cover / Built Environment
- Observatory relevance
- Amazon Basin, East Africa, Southeast Asia, North Carolina
Use guidance
- Best for
- Population health and demographic context where survey design and access restrictions are handled carefully.
- Not best for
- Open anonymous bulk download without application or projects that require exact household locations.
- Common pitfalls
- Ignoring survey weights and cluster sampling.
- Treating displaced geocoded cluster points as exact household locations.
- Combining climate grids and survey locations without documenting spatial uncertainty.
Variables and notes
- Demographics, health
Related learning resources
Use these guides to interpret the variable, scale, format, and workflow choices before using this dataset in a climate-health analysis.