| Background Characteristics |
Female |
Male |
| Illiteracy |
| Population age 15-49 that cannot read at all (%) |
35 |
18 |
| Educational Attainment |
| Population age 20-24 that has secondary or higher education (%) |
45 |
60 |
| Exposure to mass media |
| Population age 15-49 that is not regularly exposed to any media (%) |
45 |
18 |
| Early Marriage |
| Population age 25-49 that was married by age 18 (%) |
54 |
9 |
| Age at first sexual intercourse |
| Population age 25-49 that had sexual intercourse by age 15 (%) |
27 |
9 |
| Fertility and Family Planning |
Female |
Male |
| Total fertility rate |
| Number of births a woman would have in her lifetime if fertility levels remain constant at those observed in the 5 years before the survey |
5.0 |
- |
| Early child bearing |
| Women age 15-19 who have begun childbearing (%) |
28 |
- |
| Fertility desires |
| Mean ideal number of children among population age 15-49 |
5.7 |
- |
| Contraceptive use |
Currently married women age 15-49 currently using a modern method of
contraception (%) |
13 |
- |
| Employment |
Female |
Male |
| Work |
| Population age 15-49 employed in the 12 months preceding the survey (%) |
62 |
73 |
| Work for cash |
| Population age 15-49 earning cash among those employed in the 12 months preceding the survey (%) |
46 |
- |
| Occupation |
| Employed population age 15-49 in: |
| professional, technical, or managerial occupations (%) |
2 |
6 |
| all non-agricultural occupations (%) |
48 |
57 |
| Decision on use of earnings |
| Population age 15-49 with no control over their own earnings among those employed for cash (%) |
9 |
- |
| Women's Empowerment |
Female |
Male |
| Decision making |
| Women age 15-49 who have the final say in the following decisions (%): |
| own health care |
34 |
- |
| making large purchases |
32 |
- |
| making daily purchases |
44 |
- |
| visits to friends or relatives |
45 |
- |
| what food to cook |
63 |
- |
| none of the decisions |
28 |
- |
| Gender-role attitudes |
| Population age 15-49 who agree that a husband is justified in beating his wife if (%): |
| she burns the food |
19 |
- |
| she argues with him |
27 |
- |
| she goes out without telling him |
34 |
- |
| she neglects the children |
45 |
- |
| she refuses to have sex with him |
20 |
- |
| Domestic Violence |
Female |
Male |
| Physical violence |
| Women age 15-49 who have ever experienced violence by anyone (%) |
53 |
- |
| Currently married women age 15-49 who have experienced physical or sexual violence by their husband or partner (%): |
| ever |
43 |
- |
| in the 12 months preceding the survey |
28 |
- |
| Children |
Female |
Male |
| School attendance |
Primary school age population (6-13 years) that is attending primary
school (%) |
76 |
79 |
| Secondary school age population (14-17 years) that is attending secondary
school (%) |
31 |
34 |
| Treatment for children who are ill |
| Children age 0-59 months who had diarrhea in the two weeks preceding the survey who: |
| were taken to a health facility or provider (%) |
22 |
21 |
| received no treatment (%) |
24 |
21 |
| Children age 0-59 months for whom treatment was sought among those who had fever or symptoms of ARI in the two weeks preceding the survey (%) |
39 |
41 |
| Vaccination |
| Children age 12-23 months who: |
| have not received any required vaccinations (%) |
6 |
5 |
| have received all required vaccinations (%) |
49 |
47 |
| Vitamin A supplementation |
| Children age 0-59 months who received vitamin A supplements in the six months preceding the survey (%) |
37 |
39 |
| Breastfeeding |
| Children age 0-59 months who were ever breastfed (%) |
94 |
93 |
| Children age 0-6 months who were breastfed six or more times in the 24 hours preceding the survey (%) |
94 |
97 |
| Nutritional status |
| Children age 0-59 months who are: |
| stunted (%) |
31 |
33 |
| underweight (%) |
19 |
17 |
| Children age 6-59 months who are |
| anemic (%) |
65 |
72 |
| Mortality |
| Under-five mortality rate per 1,000 live births |
141 |
154 |
| HIV/AIDS |
Female |
Male |
| HIV Prevalence |
| Population age 15-49 that tested HIV positive (%) |
7 |
4 |
| Knowledge of HIV prevention |
| Population age 15-49 that knows the following ways of reducing the risk of getting AIDS (%): |
| using condoms |
69 |
82 |
| limiting sex to one uninfected faithful partner |
81 |
88 |
| abstaining from sex |
77 |
83 |
| Population age 15-49 that knows that a healthy looking person can have |
| the AIDS virus (%) |
67 |
80 |
| Negotiating safe sex |
| Population age 15-49 that agrees that if the wife knows that her husband has an STI: |
| she can refuse him sex (%) |
77 |
78 |
| she can ask him to use a condom (%) |
67 |
74 |
| Multiple sex partners |
| Population age 15-49 that had sex with more than one partner in the 12 months preceding the survey among those who had sex during the period (%) |
8 |
40 |
| Mean life-time number of sexual partners among those who have ever had sex |
3 |
6 |
| Age mixing |
| Population age 15-19 that had sex in the 12 months preceding the survey with a partner who was at least 10 years older (%) |
3 |
- |
| Higher-risk sex and condom use at last higher-risk sex1 |
| Population age 15-49 that engaged in higher-risk sex in the 12 months preceding the survey (%) |
29 |
62 |
| Population age 15-49 that used a condom at last higher-risk sex in the 12 months preceding the survey (%) |
41 |
55 |
| Household Headship |
Female |
Male |
| Households by sex of the household head (%) |
24 |
76 |