Obtaining district-level health estimates using geographically masked location from Demographic and Health Survey data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data are an important source of maternal, newborn, and child health as well as nutrition information for low- and middle-income countries. However, DHSs are often unavailable at the administrative unit that is most interesting or useful for program planning. In addition, the location of DHS survey clusters are geomasked within 10 km, and prior to 2009, may have crossed district boundaries. We aim to use DHS surveyed information with these geomasked coordinates to estimate district assignments for use in health program planning and evaluation.

Methods

We developed three methods to assign a district to a geomasked survey cluster in two DHS surveys from Malawi: 2000 and 2004. Method A assigns districts of origin in proportion to th

SUBMITTER: Wilson E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7011502 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature