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Belize Family Health Survey 1991

General Info

Provider 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Microdata access: Download
Geography 
Belize (BLZ)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
January, 1991 - February, 1991
Series or system 
Reproductive Health Survey (RHS)
Data type
Survey: Cross-sectional - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Urban-rural representative
Summary 

Part of the Reproductive Health Survey series, the 1991 Belize Family Health Survey was a national health interview survey with a focus on fertility, child morbidity and mortality, contraceptive behavior, use of health services, and health literacy relating to HIV/AIDS. The survey data is representative for rural and urban areas separately, with a sampling frame was based on the 1990 Population and Housing Census. The survey used a single questionnaire for women ages 15-49.

Keywords 
Abortion, Abortive outcome, Agriculture, Analgesics, Antenatal care, Antibiotics, BCG vaccines, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Breastfeeding, Caesarean section, Child mortality, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Education, Electricity, Employment, Ethnicity, Family planning, Female infertility, Fertility, Fever, Health care access, Health care use, Health insurance, Health literacy, Hospitals, Household water treatment, Housing materials, IUDs, Income, Injectable contraceptives, Injuries, International migration, Languages, Male infertility, Marital status, Mass media, Measles vaccines, Menopause, Menstruation, Mortality, Multiple births, Oral rehydration therapy, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Public social assistance, Religion, Sanitation, Sexual sterilization, Skilled birth attendants, Spermicides, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Telephones, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Water supply

Citation

Contributors 
Belize Family Life Association
Ministry of Health (Belize)
Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Belize Central Statistical Office
Funders 
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Government of Belize
Caribbean Development Bank
Publisher 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Suggested citation 
Belize Central Statistical Office, Belize Family Life Association, Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Ministry of Health (Belize). Belize Family Health Survey 1991. Atlanta, United States of America: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Files (2)

Public files 
FileSize
Binary Data Women's datasets in SAS, Stata and SPSS formats with documentation6.03 MB
Binary Data Readme file212.38 KB

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