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  • Title: Peru 1991/1992: results from the Demographic and Health Survey.
    Journal: Stud Fam Plann; 1993; 24(1):66-70. PubMed ID: 8475526.
    Abstract:
    The Peru Demographic and Health Survey used a multi-stage, stratified probabilistic approach to collect data from 13,479 households and complete interviews with 15,882 women aged 15-49. Interviews were conducted between October 1991 and March 1992. Data were also collected on child health from the mothers of 9289 children born in the five years preceding the survey. The survey found that over the period 1965-1985, the population grew from 11.5 million to 19.4 million. The crude birth rate per 1000 declined from 44.9 to 32.6, while crude death rate also declined from 16.6 to 9.7. The annual rate of population growth fell from 2.84% to 2.20%, and life expectancy increased from 50.3 years to 60.0. The population is more concentrated in urban centers with 67.3% living therein compared to 51.9% in 1965. UN estimates put the rate of total fertility for 1985-90 at 4.0; the survey estimate for 1989-91 is 3.5, much lower than the estimated rate of 6.9 for 1955-65. Contraceptive prevalence is low. Survey data are presented in tabular form under the following headings: distribution of survey sample population by socioeconomic characteristics; fertility trends; fertility differentials, 1989-91; age-specific fertility; mean ideal number of children by age and number of living children for all women; desire to stop childbearing among women in union; planning status of births at the time of the survey by number of living children; 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 women in union; intention to use contraception in the future among nonusers in union, by number of living children; reason for future nonuse among currently married women by age group; current marital status; differentials in age at first sexual relations; union and contraceptive status; median duration of postpartum interval; differentials in breastfeeding and amenorrhea; infant mortality trends; infant mortality differentials, 1981-91; children ever-born and surviving; percent of children 12-23 months old ever vaccinated and percent receiving specific vaccines, according to health card or mother's report; percent of children under five years old with diarrhea two weeks prior to survey, and of those, percent consulting an health facility and percent receiving different ORT treatments; type of assistance during delivery for births in five years prior to survey; and percent undernourished among children under five years old according to children's weight-for-height and height-for-age.
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