Health-Related Microdata
for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

IPUMS-DHS facilitates analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys, administered in low- and middle-income countries since the 1980s. IPUMS-DHS contains thousands of consistently coded variables on the health and well-being of women, children, births, men, and on all members of randomly selected households, for 42 African countries and 9 Asian countries. Users can determine variable availability at a glance and create data files with just the variables and samples they need.

51 countries — 233 samples — over 20,000 variables — 35 million person records

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