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Surveys identifying slums? [message #2998] Thu, 02 October 2014 12:40 Go to previous message
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I am wondering if anyone knows how many DHS have a variable which identifies whether the household is located in a *slum* area.

I saw that a lot of information for the slum population came from DHS on the UN website, "Indicator 7.10 Proportion of urban population living in slums"
http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/SeriesDetail.aspx?srid=710&c rid=

However, when I checked individual DHS final reports, so far I have only seen DHS of India, Egypt and Bangladesh have questions identifying slum households.

I am wondering if anyone knows how the UN calculated those slum population numbers "according to DHS". (I have tried to contact the corresponding UN agency but have not heard from them.)

If not considering the information from the UN, does anyone know how many & which DHS identify slums, or do researchers have to look through all DHS raw data or final reports (including many non-English ones) to find out?

Thank you very much for reading this. Any suggestion will be appreciated.
 
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