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Surveys identifying slums? [message #2998]

Thu, 02 October 2014 12:40

yuhsu
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Registered: October 2014

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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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		Surveys identifying slums? By: yuhsu on Thu, 02 October 2014 12:40
		Re: Surveys identifying slums? By: Bridgette-DHS on Thu, 02 October 2014 14:07
		Re: Surveys identifying slums? By: yuhsu on Fri, 03 October 2014 01:55
		Re: Surveys identifying slums? By: Liz-DHS on Fri, 03 October 2014 16:06
		Re: Surveys identifying slums? By: yuhsu on Sun, 05 October 2014 00:15

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