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  • Title: Philippines 1993: results from the National Demographic Survey.
    Journal: Stud Fam Plann; 1995; 26(1):49-53. PubMed ID: 7785068.
    Abstract:
    Data were collected in the Philippines National Demographic Survey from 12,995 households with complete interviews conducted among 15,029 women aged 15-49 years over the period April-June 1993. Results are presented under the following headings: general population characteristics; distribution of survey sample population by socioeconomic characteristics, percent women; fertility trends; fertility differentials, 1989-92; age-specific fertility; mean ideal number of children by age and number of living children for all women; desire to stop childbearing among currently married women; planning status of births in the five years preceding the survey by birth order; contraceptive prevalence differentials; contraceptive prevalence by age and parity; percentage distribution of current users of modern methods by most recent source of supply, according to method; knowledge and use of methods among currently married women; intention to use contraception in the future among currently married nonusers, by number of living children; reasons for nonuse among currently married women, by age group; current marital status; differentials in median age at first birth; union and contraceptive status; median duration of postpartum interval; differentials in duration of breastfeeding and amenorrhea; infant mortality trends; infant mortality differentials, 1984-93; children ever-born and surviving; percent of children 12-23 months of age ever vaccinated and percent receiving specific vaccines, according to health card or mother's report; percent of children under five years of age with diarrhea in two weeks prior to survey, and of those, percent consulting health facility and percent receiving different ORT treatments; and type of assistance during delivery for births in five years prior to survey.
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