Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 2015-2016

2015-16 TDHS-MIS provides up-to-date information on fertility levels, marriage, sexual activity, fertility preferences, family planning methods, breastfeeding practices, nutrition, childhood and maternal mortality, maternal and child health, malaria, and other health-related issues.

It is designed to provide estimates at the national level, for urban and rural areas for the country as a whole and the mainland, at the zonal level, and for some, but not all indicators, estimates at the regional level

Sampling Frame: 2012 Tanzania Population and Housing Census
First Stage: 608 clusters selected, Second Stage: 22 households selected from each cluster. In total, 13,376 households selected.

Selected households were visited and interviewed; all women age 15-49 in all of the selected households. Men age 15-49 in one-third of the selected households were interviewed

Four Questionnaires were used: Household Questionnaire, Woman’s Questionnaire, Man’s Questionnaire, Biomarker Questionnaire

Findings :
61% of households have access to an improved source of drinking water.
19% of households have an improved sanitation facility; 10% of households have no sanitation facility.
23% of households have electricity.
15% of women and 8% of men have never attended school.
72% of women and 88% of men worked in the past 7 days.

Childhood mortality has decreased over the past two decades. Current infant mortality rate is 43 deaths per 1,000 live births and under-5 mortality rate is 67 deaths per 1,000 live births.
Childhood mortality is generally higher among children of less educated mothers and those in urban Mainland areas.
Childhood mortality is much higher among children born less than 2 years after a previous birth.
Maternal mortality ratio is 556 deaths per 100,000 live births.
Children are breastfed for a median of 20.0 months.
Children under 6 months are exclusively breastfed for 3.0 months.
59% of children under 6 months are exclusively breastfed.
21% of pregnant women took iron supplements for 90+ days as recommended.
34% of children under 5 are stunted (too short for their age).
58% of children under 5 and 45% of women age 15-49 are anaemic.
28% of women are overweight or obese.
66% of households own at least one ITN.
56% of the household population has access to an ITN.
49% of household members, and 54% of children under 5 and pregnant women slept under an ITN the night before the survey.
85% of children under 5 with fever in the 2 weeks before the survey who took an antimalarial took ACT.
5% of children age 6-59 months have low haemoglobin.
14% of children age 6-59 months tested positive for malaria by RDT.
84% of married woman and more than 99% of married men were employed in the year before the survey.
58% of women and 40% of men believe a husband is justified in beating his wife for at least one reason.
10% of women age 15-49 are circumcised.
42% of ever-married women have suffered from spousal violence, whether physical or sexual, and 30% did so within the past year.