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  • Title: Tanzania 1996: results from the demographic and health survey.
    Journal: Stud Fam Plann; 1998 Sep; 29(3):324-8. PubMed ID: 9925498.
    Abstract:
    The Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey (TDHS) was conducted by the Bureau of Statistics Planning Commission, Dar es Salaam, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. Data for the nationally representative survey were collected from 7969 households, and complete interviews were conducted with 8120 women aged 15-49 years and 2256 men aged 15-59 during July-November 1996. Summary statistics are presented under the following headings: general characteristics of the population; percentage distribution of women surveyed; fertility trends; fertility differentials, 1992-95; mean ideal number of children, by age and number of living children for all women; desire to stop childbearing among all women, by number of living children; percentage distribution of births in the 5 years preceding the survey, by planning status, according to birth order, 1996; contraceptive prevalence differentials; differentials in median age at first birth; union and contraceptive status; differentials in duration of breast-feeding; median duration of postpartum interval; infant mortality trends; infant mortality differentials, 1986-96; and children ever born, surviving, and proportion dead. Data are also reported on the percentage of children aged 12-23 months who have received specific vaccines, the incidence of diarrhea and its treatment among children under age 5 years, the types of assistance provided during delivery, and anthropometric measures with regard to child nutritional status.
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