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Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 1996

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General Info
Provider 
Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)
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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:
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally 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, 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
GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 19, 2022