rdhs

API Client and Dataset Management for the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Data

Last update: 21 November 2023

Software version identifier: 0.7.6, 0.6.0, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.6.3, 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.3, 0.7.5, 0.8.0, 0.8.1

Source code repository: https://github.com/cran/rdhs

Copyright license: MIT license, File License

Description

Provides a client for (1) querying the DHS API for survey indicators and metadata (<https://api.dhsprogram.com/#/index.html>), (2) identifying surveys and datasets for analysis, (3) downloading survey datasets from the DHS website, (4) loading datasets and associate metadata into R, and (5) extracting variables and combining datasets for pooled analysis.