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Libya Maternal and Child Health Survey 1995

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
The Arab Libyan Maternal and Child Health Survey
Geography 
Libya (LBY)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
01/1995 - 12/1995
Series or system 
Pan Arab Project for Child Development (PAPCHILD)
Data type
Survey:
  • Household
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The Arab Libyan Maternal and Child Health Survey, which was conducted as part of the PAPCHILD project, was a nationally representative survey covering 6,707 households, and 5,348 children under 5. Anthropometric measurements were taken for approximately 85% of the children. The survey included questionnaires for the household, women and children; it also included a community questionnaire covering health facilities, equipment, services and personnel. Topics included fertility preferences and contraceptive use, causes of childhood death (through a "verbal autopsy" component - questions on symptoms before death), breastfeeding and other food given to children, childhood illness and accidents, immunization, and demographic characteristics.

The 1997 published report may be available through the library system.

Keywords 
Abortion, Ambulances, Analgesics, Antenatal care, Antibiotics, Antimalarials, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Beds, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Breastfeeding, Caesarean section, Child anthropometry, Complete birth history, Condoms, Congenital anomalies, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Disability, Education, Electricity, Employment, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female infertility, Fever, Health care access, Health care personnel, Health facilities, Height, Hepatitis B vaccines, Hookworm disease, Household deaths, Housing, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hygiene, IUDs, Immunization, Injectable contraceptives, Injuries, Summary birth history, Literacy, Live births, Lower respiratory infections, Male infertility, Malnutrition, Marital status, Mass media, Maternal age, Maternal care, Maternal mortality, Measles, Measles vaccines, Menstruation, Micronutrient supplements, Mortality, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, Parental survival, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Pregnancy complications, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sexual sterilization, Sibling survival, Skilled birth attendants, Stillbirths, Symptoms, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Traditional birth control, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Vaccination cards, Vomiting, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight, Abortive outcome
GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 19, 2022