| Background Characteristics |
Female |
Male |
| Illiteracy |
| Ever married women age 15-49 that cannot read at all (%) |
41 |
- |
| Educational Attainment |
| Ever married women age 20-24 that has secondary or higher education (%)1 |
48 |
- |
| Exposure to mass media |
| Ever married women age 15-49 that are not regularly exposed to any media at least once a week(%) |
3 |
- |
| Early Marriage |
| Population age 25-49 that was married by age 18 (%) |
30 |
- |
| Age at first sexual intercourse |
| Women age 25-49 and men age 25-59 that had sexual intercourse by age 15 (%) |
n/a |
n/a |
| 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 |
3.1 |
- |
| Early child bearing |
| Women age 15-19 who have begun childbearing (%) |
9 |
- |
| Fertility desires |
| Mean ideal number of children among women age 15-49 and men age 15-59 |
2.9 |
- |
| Contraceptive use |
| Currently married women age 15-49 currently using a modern method of contraception (%) |
57 |
- |
| Employment |
Female |
Male |
| Work |
| Ever married women age 15-49 employed in the 12 months preceding the survey who are currently employed (%) |
22 |
- |
| Work for cash |
| Ever married women age 15-49 earning cash among those employed in the 12 months preceding the survey (%) 2 |
74 |
- |
| Occupation |
| Ever married women age 15-49 employed in: |
| professional, technical, or managerial occupations (%) |
36 |
- |
| all non-agricultural occupations (%) |
75 |
- |
| Decision on use of earnings |
| Curently married women age 15-49 with no control over their earnings among those employed for cash (%) |
96 |
- |
| Womens's Empowerment |
Female |
Male |
| Decision Making |
| Currently married women age 15-49 who alone or jointly have the final say in the following decisions: (%): |
| own health care |
79 |
- |
| making large purchases |
54 |
- |
| making daily purchases |
80 |
- |
| visits to friends or relatives |
73 |
- |
| none of the decisions |
7 |
- |
| Gender-role attitudes |
| Population age 15-49 who agrees that a husband is justified in beating his wife if (%): |
| she burns the food |
n/a |
n/a |
| she argues with him |
n/a |
n/a |
| she goes without telling him |
n/a |
n/a |
| she neglects the children |
n/a |
n/a |
| she refuses to have sex with him |
n/a |
n/a |
| Domestic Violence |
Female |
Male |
| Physical Violence |
| Ever married women age 15-49 who have experienced physical or sexual violence by their husband or partner (%):
|
| ever |
34 |
- |
| often in the 12 months preceding the survey |
7 |
- |
| sometimes in 12 months preceding the survey |
15 |
- |
| Children |
Female |
Male |
| School attendance |
Primary school age population (7-12 years) that is attending primary
school (%) |
n/a |
n/a |
| Secondary school age population (13-18 years) that is attending secondary school (%) |
n/a |
n/a |
| 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 (%) |
54 |
56 |
| received no treatment (%) |
30 |
27 |
| 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 (%) |
70 |
76 |
| Vaccination |
| Children age 12-23 months who: |
| have not received any required vaccinations (%) |
0 |
0 |
| have received all required vaccinations (%) |
77 |
75 |
| Vitamin A supplementation |
| Children age 0-59 months who received vitamin A supplements in the six months preceding the survey (%) |
14 |
14 |
| Breastfeeding |
| Children age 0-59 months who were ever breastfed (%) |
95 |
95 |
| Children age 0-6 months who were breastfed six or more times in the 24 hours preceding the survey (%) |
96 |
96 |
| Nutritional status |
| Children age 0-59 months who are: |
| stunted (%) |
16 |
19 |
| underweight (%) |
6 |
7 |
| Children age 6-59 months who are: |
| anemic (%) |
51 |
46 |
| Mortality |
| Under-five mortality rate per 1,000 live births |
47 |
53 |
| HIV/AIDS |
Female |
Male |
| HIV Prevalence |
| Population age 15-49 that tested HIV positive (%) |
n/a |
n/a |
| Knowledge of HIV prevention |
| Ever married women age 15-49 that knows the following ways of reducing the risk of getting AIDS (%): |
| using condoms |
26 |
- |
| limiting sex to one uninfected faithful partner |
63 |
- |
| abstaining from sex |
45 |
- |
| Population age 15-49 that knows that a healthy looking person can: |
| have the AIDS virus (%) |
47 |
- |
| Negotiating safe sex |
| Ever married women age 15-49 that agree that if the wife knows that her husband has an STI: |
| she can refuse him sex (%) |
n/a |
n/a |
| she can ask him to use a condom (%) |
n/a |
n/a |
| 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 (%) |
n/a |
n/a |
| Mean life-time number of sexual partners among those who have ever had sex |
n/a |
n/a |
| Higher-risk sex and condom use at last higher-risk sex3 |
| Population age 15-49 that engaged in higher-risk sex in the 12 months preceding the survey (%) |
n/a |
n/a |
| Population age 15-49 that used a condom at last higher-risk sex in the 12 months preceding the survey (%) |
n/a |
n/a |
| Household Headship |
Female |
Male |
| Households by sex of the household head (%) |
n/a |
n/a |
