Tool for Using Demographic and Health Survey Data to Estimate the Size of Orphans-and- Vulnerable-Children Groups at the National and Subnational Levels
Abstract:
This workbook is designed to assist PEPFAR orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) country programs to estimate the size of four groups of potentially vulnerable children:
Children ages 0-17 years of age living in a household with at least one HIV-positive adult member age 18 or older
Orphans (includes children whose guardian does not know if biological parents are alive) and children ages 0-17 living with orphans in a household with at least one HIV-positive adult member age 18 or older
Children ages 0-17 years of age who are orphans (biological mother and/or biological father deceased), irrespective of reason for parent's death
Orphans and children ages 0-17 years of age living with an orphan (coresident children), irrespective of reason for parent's death or presence of an HIV-positive adult in the household
Each PEPFAR country has its own worksheet (tab). The percentages of potentially vulnerable children are derived from Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data sets.