Beyond national indicators: adapting the Demographic and Health Surveys’ sampling strategies and questions to better inform subnational malaria intervention policy
Published in Malaria Journal, 2021
Ozodiegwu, I.D., Ambrose, M., Battle, K.E., Bever, C., Diallo, O., Galatas, B., Runge, M., Gerardin, J., 2021. Beyond national indicators: adapting the Demographic and Health Surveys’ sampling strategies and questions to better inform subnational malaria intervention policy. Malaria Journal 20, 122. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03646-w https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12936-021-03646-w
The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program is a critical data source for understanding subnational malaria prevalence and intervention coverage, which are used for parameterizing country-specific models of malaria transmission. However, data to estimate indicators at finer resolutions are limited, and surveys questions have a narrow scope. Examples from the Nigeria DHS are used to highlight gaps in the current survey design. Proposals are then made for additional questions and expansions to the DHS and Malaria Indicator Survey sampling strategy that would advance the data analyses and modelled estimates that inform national policy recommendationsDownload paper here