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 12/2009 - 05/2010 Series or system DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) DHS Program Surveys Data type Survey: Cross-sectionalGPS coordinates (GIS)HouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representativeSubnationally representativeUrban-rural representative Summary The Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 2009-2010 is part of phase 6 of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Topics covered in DHS typically include education, health, nutrition, family planning and household characteristics. The Tanzania 2009-2010 DHS had a sample of 10,300 households and included sections on bednets and antimalarials, fistula, female genital cutting, maternal mortality, and domestic violence. The survey also included anemia testing with testing for transferrin receptor, vitamin A testing, and testing salt and urine for iodine. Keywords Abortion, Abortive outcome, Alcohol use, Anemia, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Ascariasis, BCG vaccines, Birth weight, Blood tests, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Caesarean section, Causes of death, Child anthropometry, Child mortality, Childhood sexual violence, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Diet, Domestic violence, Education, Employment, Secondhand smoke, Ethnicity, FFQ, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female infertility, Fertility, Fever, Health care access, Health literacy, Height, Hemoglobin, Hookworm disease, Household air pollution, Household water treatment, Illicit drug use, Immunization, Income, Infant mortality, Intimate partner violence, Iodine deficiency, Iron, Literacy, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Male infertility, Malnutrition, Marital status, Maternal mortality, Menstruation, Mortality, Multiple births, Neonatal conditions, Night blindness, Obstetric fistulas, Obstructed labor, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Population density, Pregnancy, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Sexual violence, Skilled birth attendants, Smokeless tobacco use, Summary birth history, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Upper respiratory infections, Urine tests, Vitamin A deficiency, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight, Stillbirths, Complete sibling history Citation Contributors National Bureau of Statistics (Tanzania) ICF Macro Funders Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (Tanzania) Department for International Development (DFiD) (United Kingdom) World Health Organization (WHO) United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) World Food Programme (WFP) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Irish Aid Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre Publisher ICF International Suggested citation ICF Macro, National Bureau of Statistics (Tanzania). Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 2009-2010. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International. GHDx Entry last modified on: Oct 11, 2024