Mapping the Prevalence of Binary Indicators using Survey Data in Small Areas

Provides a pipeline to perform small area estimation and prevalence mapping of binary indicators using health and demographic survey data, described in Dong et al. (2026) , Wakefield et al. (2025) and Wakefield et al. (2020) .

surveyPrev

R package for the full workflow to map the prevalence of common DHS indicators.

Installation

To install and load the latest version of the surveyPrev package, use the following command.

library(devtools)
install_github("richardli/SUMMER")
install_github("richardli/surveyPrev")

library(surveyPrev)

Please note that the surveyPrev package is developed concurrently with the SUMMER package, so it is highly recommended that you update both packages to the latest version on GitHub first. Please use version 2.12.0 of labelled package when processing DHS indicators in surveyPrev::getDHSindicator().