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Tanzania Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Survey 1994

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
1994 Tanzania Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Survey (TKAPS)
Provider 
Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)
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Geography 
United Republic of Tanzania (TZA)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
07/1994 - 09/1994
Series or system 
DHS Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices in Health Survey (KAP)
DHS Program Surveys
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
Summary 

The 1994 TKAP survey  was a follow-up to the 1991-1992 Demographic and Health Survey and utilized a sub-sample of the sample points from the 1991-1992 survey. The 1994 study included 4,225 women ages 15 to 49 years and 2,097 men ages 15 to 59 years. 

The 1994 TKAP did not cover maternal and child health and nutrition and only contains a summary birth history. Topics covered include contraceptives use, family planning, contraceptive knowledge, and HIV/AIDS knowledge. Interview instruments included questionnaires were for households, a questionnaire for women and a questionnaire for men. 

Keywords 
Adult mortality, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Assets, Birth control pills, Breastfeeding, Community health clinics, Condoms, Contraceptives, Drug consumption, Education, Education access, Electricity, Employment, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female infertility, Fertility, Gonococcal infections, HIV and AIDS, HPV, Health care access, Health care use, Health education, Health facilities, Health literacy, Home care, Hospitals, Housing conditions, Housing materials, IUDs, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Land ownership, Literacy, Live births, Living conditions, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Menstruation, Mortality, Occupation codes, Occupations, Parental survival, Pharmacies, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Self-treatment, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Summary birth history, Symptoms, Syphilis, Traditional birth control, Transportation, Water supply
GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 19, 2022