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preparation of the definitive questionnaires in English, the questionnaires were then translated into<br />

Chichewa and Tumbuka languages. All four questionnaires were programmed into tablet computers to<br />

facilitate computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) for data collection, and to offer the option to<br />

choose either English, Chichewa or Tumbuka for each questionnaire.<br />

The Household Questionnaire listed all members of and visitors to the selected households. Basic<br />

demographic information was collected on the characteristics of each person listed such as age, sex,<br />

marital status, education, and relationship to the head of the household. Parents’ survival status was<br />

determined for children under age 18. The data on age and sex of household members obtained in the<br />

Household Questionnaire were used to identify women and men who were eligible for individual<br />

interviews. The Household Questionnaire collected information on characteristics of the household’s<br />

dwelling unit such as source of water, type of toilet facilities, materials used for the floor of the dwelling<br />

unit, and ownership of various durable goods. The Household Questionnaire also collected information on<br />

the ownership and use of mosquito nets. An additional module developed by UNICEF to estimate the<br />

prevalence of disabilities among children age 5-17 was also included in the Household Questionnaire.<br />

The Woman’s Questionnaire collected information from all eligible women age 15-49 who were asked<br />

questions on:<br />

• Background characteristics: age, education, media exposure<br />

• Reproduction: children ever born, birth history, current pregnancy<br />

• Family planning: knowledge and use of contraception, sources of contraceptive methods, information<br />

on family planning<br />

• Maternal and child health, breastfeeding, and nutrition: prenatal care, delivery, postnatal care,<br />

breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices, vaccination coverage, prevalence and treatment of<br />

diarrhoea, acute respiratory infection (ARI), fever, knowledge and use of oral rehydration therapy<br />

(ORT), breastfeeding, and feeding practices<br />

• Marriage and sexual activity: marital status, age at first marriage, number of unions, age at first sexual<br />

intercourse, recent sexual activity, number and type of sexual partners, use of condoms<br />

• Fertility preferences: desire for more children, ideal number of children, gender preferences, intention<br />

to use family planning<br />

• Husband’s background and woman’s work: husband’s age, level of education, and occupation, and<br />

woman’s occupation and sources of earnings<br />

• STDs and HIV: knowledge of STDs and HIV, methods of transmission, sources of information,<br />

behaviours to avoid STDs and HIV, and stigma<br />

• Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours related to other health issues such as injections, smoking, fistula,<br />

tuberculosis<br />

• Adult and maternal mortality<br />

• Domestic violence<br />

1.4 ANTHROPOMETRY, ANAEMIA TESTING, AND HIV TESTING<br />

In the subsample of households selected for the male survey, the <strong>2015</strong>-<strong>16</strong> MDHS incorporated the<br />

biomarkers for anthropometry, anaemia testing, and HIV testing. In contrast to the data collection<br />

procedure for the household and individual interviews, data related to the biomarkers were initially<br />

Introduction and Survey Methodology • 3

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