The DHS EdData household education survey is designed to provide information about the decisions households make about how much of what kind of education to invest in for household members. Specific topics in the DHS EdData core survey include:
The reasons for school-age children never having attended school, having dropped out of school, and for overage first-time school enrollment Household expenditures on schooling and other contributions to schooling Parent/guardian perceptions of the benefits of schooling and of school quality Distances and travel times to schools The frequency of and reasons for student absenteeism. The DHS EdData household education survey may either be linked to the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) or conducted independently. In linked surveys, following the completion of a DHS, a subsample of the DHS households (generally 3,000 households or more) is revisited and parents/guardians of school-age children are asked questions about education. The data from the DHS and DHS EdData are then linked to produce a data set with demographic, health, nutrition, and education data for the same set of households. In independent surveys, the DHS EdData household survey is not linked to another survey.
Data from DHS EdData Surveys can be obtained through the DHS website.