| Background Characteristics |
Female |
Male |
| Illiteracy |
| Women age 15-49 and men age 15-59 that cannot read at all (%) |
29 |
22 |
| Educational Attainment |
| Population age 20-24 that has secondary or higher education (%)1 |
11 |
13 |
| Exposure to mass media |
| Women age 15-49 and men age 15-59 that are not regularly exposed to any media (%) |
44 |
19 |
| Early Marriage |
| Women age 15-49 and men age 15-59 that was married by age 18 (%) |
19 |
12 |
| Age at first sexual intercourse |
| Women age 15-49 and men age 15-59 that had sexual intercourse by age 15 (%) |
4 |
4 |
| 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 |
6.1 |
- |
| Early child bearing |
| Women age 15-19 who have begun childbearing (%) |
4 |
- |
| Fertility desires |
| Mean ideal number of children among women age 15-49 and men age 15-59 |
4.3 |
4.0 |
| Contraceptive use |
| Currently married women age 15-49 currently using a modern method of contraception (%) |
10 |
- |
| Employment |
Female |
Male |
| Work |
| Women age 15-49 and men age 15-59 employed in the 12 months preceding the survey who are currently employed (%) |
64 |
52 |
| Work for cash |
| Population age 15-49 earning cash among those employed in the 12 months preceding the survey (%) 2 |
15 |
- |
| Occupation |
| Women age 15-49 and men age 15-59 employed in: |
| professional, technical, or managerial occupations (%) |
3 |
6 |
| all non-agricultural occupations (%) |
11 |
32 |
| Decision on use of earnings |
| Population age 15-49 with no control over their own earnings among those employed for cash (%) |
n/a |
- |
| Women's Empowerment |
Female |
Male |
| Decision making |
| Women age 15-49 who have the final say in the following decisions (%): |
| own health care |
n/a |
- |
| making large purchases |
n/a |
- |
| making daily purchases |
n/a |
- |
| visits to friends or relatives |
n/a |
- |
| what food to cook |
n/a |
- |
| none of the decisions |
n/a |
- |
| Gender-role attitudes |
| Population age 15-49 who agree 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 out 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 |
| Women age 15-49 who have experienced violence by anyone (%):
|
| since age 15 |
31 |
- |
| in past 12 months |
19 |
- |
| Currently married and divorced or separated women age 15-49 who have experienced physical or sexual violence by their husband or partner (%): |
| ever |
34 |
- |
| in 12 months preceding the survey |
26 |
- |
| Children |
Female |
Male |
| School attendance |
Primary school age population (6-11 years) that is attending primary
school (%) |
77 |
74 |
| Secondary school age population (12-18 years) that is attending secondary school (%) |
4 |
4 |
| 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 (%) |
12 |
16 |
| received no treatment (%) |
32 |
35 |
| 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 (%) |
26 |
28 |
| Vaccination |
| Children age 12-23 months who: |
| have not received any required vaccinations (%) |
2 |
3 |
| have received all required vaccinations (%) |
75 |
75 |
| Vitamin A supplementation |
| Children age 0-59 months who received vitamin A supplements in the six months preceding the survey (%) |
84 |
84 |
| Breastfeeding |
| Children age 0-59 months who were ever breastfed (%) |
97 |
97 |
| Children age 0-6 months who were breastfed six or more times in the 24 hours preceding the survey (%) |
98 |
98 |
| Nutritional status |
| Children age 0-59 months who are: |
| stunted (%) |
44 |
46 |
| underweight (%) |
22 |
23 |
| Children age 6-59 months who are: |
| anemic (%) |
56 |
57 |
| Mortality |
| Under-five mortality rate per 1,000 live births |
177 |
187 |
| HIV/AIDS |
Female |
Male |
| HIV Prevalence |
| Population age 15-49 that tested HIV positive (%) |
3.6 |
2.3 |
| Knowledge of HIV prevention |
| Population age 15-49 that knows the following ways of reducing the risk of getting AIDS (%): |
| using condoms |
80 |
90 |
| limiting sex to one uninfected faithful partner |
87 |
87 |
| abstaining from sex |
82 |
88 |
| Population age 15-49 that knows that a healthy looking person can: |
| have the AIDS virus (%) |
84 |
92 |
| 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 (%) |
91 |
- |
| she can ask him to use a condom (%) |
86 |
- |
| 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 (%) |
1 |
5 |
| 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 (%) |
8 |
14 |
| Population age 15-49 that used a condom at last higher-risk sex in the 12 months preceding the survey (%) |
20 |
41 |
| Household Headship |
Female |
Male |
| Households by sex of the household head (%) |
34 |
66 |
