About the Data

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About the data

How these estimates are produced and how to read them.

About the lab

The SEPP Lab investigates the social determinants and fundamental causes of health and disease across geographic scales. Integrating quantitative social demography with field epidemiology, the lab combines macro-level population data architectures and spatial analytics with ground-level, mixed-methods field studies. Visit the lab page.

Sample

UMIS 2024 is the 2024-25 Uganda Malaria Indicator Survey, a two-stage stratified cluster sample. National figures use the national sample with its survey weights. Refugee settlements are a separate sample of about 20 clusters with their own weights. They appear as their own line and option, are never pooled with national figures, and are never ranked with subregions.

Reading the estimates

  • Lines on charts show 95% confidence intervals. Subregion intervals use each subregion's own design degrees of freedom.
  • Estimates from fewer than 25 unweighted cases are suppressed, along with the other groups in that comparison, so a hidden value cannot be worked out by subtraction. Estimates from 25-49 cases appear in parentheses.
  • Percentages are rounded to one decimal place.
  • A value of exactly 0% or 100% has no design-based interval, so none is shown.
  • People and KAP offer one attribute at a time within a subregion. Wealth uses three groups there, and altitude, modeled malaria and spraying are shown for Uganda only, because too many cells are small.
  • Rankings are descriptive. Many neighboring intervals overlap.
  • Adjusted models on the People page are survey logistic regressions for UMIS 2024. They add child and household factors, then subregion, then altitude and modeled transmission. They show associations from one survey, not the effect of an intervention.
  • "Mosquito net" and "insecticide-treated net" answers count as one knowledge item.
  • Agreement items are affected by yes-saying and interviewer differences. Read them with care.

How each estimate was checked

Indicators

Data source and privacy

The survey data were obtained through The DHS Program (dhsprogram.com). The analysis and any errors are the lab's own, and this site does not represent The DHS Program or the Government of Uganda.

This site publishes aggregate estimates only. It holds no record for any person or household, no survey cluster identifiers or locations, and no survey weights, so survey records cannot be retrieved from it. Researchers who want the survey data can request them from The DHS Program.

Boundaries

Subregion boundaries come from the DHS Spatial Data Repository (survey UG2024MIS), available under the Open Database License.