NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)Microdata access: Request Geography United Republic of Tanzania (TZA) Coverage type Country Time period covered 07/1996 - 11/1996 Series or system DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) DHS Program Surveys Data type Survey: HouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representative Summary The Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 1996 is part of phase 3 of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Topics commonly covered in DHS include education, health, nutrition, family planning and household characteristics. Keywords Age at first sex, Agriculture, Anemia, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antibiotics, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Caesarean section, Causes of death, Child anthropometry, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cough, Counseling, DTP vaccines, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female circumcision, Female infertility, Fertility, Fever, Gonococcal infections, HIV and AIDS, HPV, Health care access, Health care use, Health education, Health literacy, Health status, Height, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, IUDs, Immunization, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Land ownership, Literacy, Live births, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Male infertility, Malnutrition, Marital status, Mass media, Maternal mortality, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Menstruation, Mortality, Multiple births, Neonatal conditions, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, Parental survival, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Poverty, Pregnancy, Pregnancy complications, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Seizures, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Sibling survival [Do not use], Skilled birth attendants, Spermicides, Summary birth history, Syphilis, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Upper respiratory infections, Vaccination cards, Water supply, Weight, Complete sibling history Citation Contributors Macro International, Inc Planning Commission (Tanzania) Bureau of Statistics (Tanzania) Funders United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Publisher ICF International Suggested citation Bureau of Statistics (Tanzania), Macro International, Inc, Planning Commission (Tanzania). Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 1996. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International. GHDx Entry last modified on: Jul 24, 2024