MEASURE DHS - Rwanda DHS Key Indicators

- Rwanda 2005 DHS

Gender data may not match individual country reports exactly as data have been standardized for comparative purposes.

Note: Please roll over asterisks (*) to see notes.

	Women	Men	Notes
Do women and men have equal access to education and information?
Women and men age 15-49 who cannot read (%)	29.7	22.5	(*)
Women and men age 20-24 who have attended secondary or higher education (%)	11.0	12.8
Women and men age 15-49 who are not regularly exposed to any media (TV, radio, or newspaper) at least once a week (%)	43.6	19.2	(*)

	Women	Men	Notes
Do women and men have equal opportunities for employment?
Women and men age 15-49 who were employed in the 12 months before the survey (%)	73.0	57.1	(*)
And, among those who were employed in the 12 months before the survey:
Women and men age 15-49 earning cash (cash only or cash and in-kind) (%)	30.5	u
Women and men 15-49 employed in professional, technical, or managerial occupations (%)	2.8	6.0
Women and men 15-49 employed in all non-agricultural occupations (%)	13.8	37.6
Percent of currently married women age 15-49 who do not have control over their own earnings (among those employed for cash)	u	na

	Women	Men	Notes
Do women make decisions in households?
Households headed by women or men (%)	33.9	66.1
Currently married women 15-49 who alone or jointly have the final say in the following decisions, and currently married men who say that a wife should have the greater say alone or have an equal say with husband:
own health care (%)	u	u
making large purchases (%)	u	u
making daily purchases (%)	u	u
visits to friends or relatives (%)	u	u
none of these decisions (%)	u	u

	Women	Men	Notes
How do marriage and fertility patterns differ between women and men?
Women and men age 20-49 who were married by age 18 (%)	19.2	3.5	(*)
Women and men age 20-49 who had sexual intercourse by age 15 (%)	3.8	3.5	(*)
Total fertility rate: average number of births per woman	6.1	na
Women age 15-19 who have begun childbearing (%)	4.1	na
Mean ideal number of children among women and men age 15-49	4.3	4.0
Currently married women age 15-49 currently using a modern method of contraception (%) and currently married men who used a method with their last partner (%)	10.3	u

	Women	Men	Notes
Are children treated differently based on their gender?
Primary school age children (6-11 years) that are attending primary school (%)	76.6	73.8
Secondary school age children (12-17 years) that are attending secondary school (%)	3.8	4.4

	Women	Men	Notes
Does society justify wife beating?
Women and men age 15-49 who agree that a husband is justified in beating his wife if:
she burns the food (%)	u	u
she argues with him (%)	u	u
she goes out without telling him (%)	u	u
she neglects the children (%)	u	u
she refuses to have sex with him (%)	u	u
at least one of these reasons (%)	u	u

	Women	Men	Notes
Do women and men experience physical or sexual violence?
Women and men age 15-49 who have experienced physical violence by anyone:
since age 15 (%)	30.7	u
in the past 12 months (%)	19.4	u
Women and men age 15-49 who have ever experienced sexual violence by anyone (%)	u	u
Ever-married women and men age 15-49 who have experienced physical or sexual violence by their spouse or partner:
ever (%)	33.8	u
in the last 12 months (%)	25.6	u

	Women	Men	Notes
Do women and men have the knowledge and empowerment necessary to reduce their risk of contracting HIV?
Women and men age 15-49 who know that the risk of contracting HIV can be reduced by:
using condoms (%)	80.0	89.7
limiting sex to one uninfected faithful partner (%)	86.8	87.0
Women and men age 15-49 who know that a healthy-looking person can have HIV (%)	83.8	91.7
Women and men age 15-49 who had sex with more than one partner in the 12 months preceding the survey among those who had sex during the period (%)	0.6	5.1
Mean lifetime number of sexual partners among those who have ever had sex	1.5	3.0
Women and men age 15-49 who were tested and received results from an HIV test takenin the 12 months before the survey (%)	11.6	11.0

	Women	Men	Notes
Does HIV affect women disproportionately?
Women and men age 15-49 who tested HIV-positive (%)	3.6	2.3

^na not applicable ^u data not collected or cannot be calculated