Articles By Subject

Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)

24 October 2024 | descriptive finding

Children under 5 in polygynous households in sub-Saharan Africa, 2000 to 2020

Emily Treleaven, Emma Banchoff

Volume: 51 Article ID: 32
Pages: 999–1016
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2024.51.32

27 September 2023 | research material

Calculating contraceptive prevalence and unmet need for family planning in low-fertility countries with the Generations and Gender Survey

Judith Koops

Volume: 49 Article ID: 21
Pages: 543–564
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2023.49.21

15 September 2022 | research article

Women's economic empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from cross-national population data

Eunice Williams, Heini Vaisanen, Sabu S. Padmadas

Volume: 47 Article ID: 15
Pages: 415–452
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2022.47.15

23 March 2022 | research article

Accuracy of wives' proxy reports of husbands' fertility preferences in sub-Saharan Africa

Dana Sarnak, Stan Becker

Volume: 46 Article ID: 17
Pages: 503–546
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2022.46.17

03 January 2020 | descriptive finding

Relationship between vaccination and nutritional status in children: Analysis of recent Demographic and Health Surveys

Maria Teresa Solis-Soto, Deepak Paudel, Francesco Nicoli

Volume: 42 Article ID: 1
Pages: 1–14
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2020.42.1

01 February 2019 | research article

The effects of household and community context on mortality among children under five in Sierra Leone: Evidence from the 2013 Demographic and Health Survey

Lilipramawanty Kewok Liwin, Brian Houle

Volume: 40 Article ID: 11
Pages: 279–306
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2019.40.11

13 December 2018 | descriptive finding

Does age-adjusted measurement of contraceptive use better explain the relationship between fertility and contraception?

Yoonjoung Choi, Madeleine Short Fabic, Jacob Adetunji

Volume: 39 Article ID: 45
Pages: 1227–1240
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2018.39.45

06 September 2018 | research article

Interviewer effects on patterns of nonresponse: Evaluating the impact on the reasons for contraceptive nonuse in the Indonesia and the Philippines DHS

Mark Amos

Volume: 39 Article ID: 14
Pages: 415–430
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2018.39.14

23 May 2018 | research material

Measuring fertility through mobile‒phone based household surveys: Methods, data quality, and lessons learned from PMA2020 surveys

Yoonjoung Choi, Qingfeng Li, Blake Zachary

Volume: 38 Article ID: 55
Pages: 1663–1698
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.55

16 March 2017 | research article

Measuring male fertility rates in developing countries with Demographic and Health Surveys: An assessment of three methods

Bruno Schoumaker

Volume: 36 Article ID: 28
Pages: 803–850
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2017.36.28

04 May 2016 | research article

Birth seasonality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Audrey Dorélien

Volume: 34 Article ID: 27
Pages: 761–796
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2016.34.27

21 January 2016 | research article

The quality of demographic data on older Africans

Sara Randall, Ernestina Coast

Volume: 34 Article ID: 5
Pages: 143–174
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2016.34.5

08 May 2015 | research article

Traditional and modern cohabitation in Latin America: A comparative typology

Maira Covre-Sussai, Bart Meuleman, Sarah Botterman, Koen Matthijs

Volume: 32 Article ID: 32
Pages: 873–914
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2015.32.32

29 May 2013 | research material

A Stata module for computing fertility rates and TFRs from birth histories: tfr2

Bruno Schoumaker

Volume: 28 Article ID: 38
Pages: 1093–1144
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2013.28.38

13 November 2012 | research article

Further evidence of community education effects on fertility in sub-Saharan Africa

Øystein Kravdal

Volume: 27 Article ID: 22
Pages: 645–680
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2012.27.22

27 June 2012 | research article

Natural resources and rural livelihoods: Differences between migrants and non-migrants in Madagascar

Raphael Nawrotzki, Lori Hunter, Thomas W. Dickinson

Volume: 26 Article ID: 24
Pages: 661–700
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2012.26.24

25 April 2012 | research article

Estimating trends in the total fertility rate with uncertainty using imperfect data: Examples from West Africa

Leontine Alkema, Adrian E. Raftery, Patrick Gerland, Samuel J. Clark, Francois Pelletier

Volume: 26 Article ID: 15
Pages: 331–362
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2012.26.15

01 October 2009 | research article

Determinants of infant and child mortality in Zimbabwe: Results of multivariate hazard analysis

Joshua Kembo, Jeroen K Van Ginneken

Volume: 21 Article ID: 13
Pages: 367–384
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.13

17 October 2007 | research article

Fertility and union dissolution in Brazil: an example of multi-process modelling using the Demographic and Health Survey calendar data

Tiziana Leone, Andrew Hinde

Volume: 17 Article ID: 7
Pages: 157–180
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2007.17.7

18 July 2006 | research article

A simulation-based assessment of the bias produced when using averages from small DHS clusters as contextual variables in multilevel models

Øystein Kravdal

Volume: 15 Article ID: 1
Pages: 1–20
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2006.15.1