2024 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey

Seventh Edition

Data file: ZMIR81FL

IR: Individual (Women’s) Recode
Unit of analysis: De facto woman interviewed

Contains all the data collected in the Woman’s Questionnaire for de facto women plus some variables from the Household Questionnaire. Up to 20 births in the birth history (see also BR file), and up to 6 children under age 5 (see also KR file), for whom pregnancy and postnatal care as well as immunization, health and nutrition data were collected, can be found as repeated variables in this file. This dataset is used for most woman-level analysis including marriage and sexual activity, fertility and fertility preferences, family planning, anthropometry and anemia in women, malaria prevention for women, HIV/AIDS, women’s empowerment, and domestic violence.