MEASURE DHS - Tanzania THMIS Key Indicators

- Tanzania 2007-08 THMIS

Gender data may not match individual country reports exactly as data have been standardized for comparative purposes.

Note: Please roll over asterisks (*) to see notes.

	Women	Men	Notes
Do women and men have equal access to education and information?
Women and men age 15-49 who cannot read (%)	u	u
Women and men age 20-24 who have attended secondary or higher education (%)	13.6	19.2	(*)
Women and men age 15-49 who are not regularly exposed to any media (TV, radio, or newspaper) at least once a week (%)	39.6	22.9

	Women	Men	Notes
Do women and men have equal opportunities for employment?
Women and men age 15-49 who were employed in the 12 months before the survey (%)	80.1	81.0
And, among those who were employed in the 12 months before the survey:
Women and men age 15-49 earning cash (cash only or cash and in-kind) (%)	u	u
Women and men 15-49 employed in professional, technical, or managerial occupations (%)	u	u
Women and men 15-49 employed in all non-agricultural occupations (%)	u	u
Percent of currently married women age 15-49 who do not have control over their own earnings (among those employed for cash)	u	u

	Women	Men	Notes
Do women make decisions in households?
Households headed by women or men (%)	24.4	75.6
Currently married women 15-49 who alone or jointly have the final say in the following decisions, and currently married men who say that a wife should have the greater say alone or have an equal say with husband:
own health care (%)	u	u
making large purchases (%)	u	u
making daily purchases (%)	u	u
visits to friends or relatives (%)	u	u
none of these decisions (%)	u	u

	Women	Men	Notes
How do marriage and fertility patterns differ between women and men?
Women and men age 20-49 who were married by age 18 (%)	39.7	4.9
Women and men age 20-49 who had sexual intercourse by age 15 (%)	14.2	8.0
Total fertility rate: average number of births per woman	5.6	na
Women age 15-19 who have begun childbearing (%)	23.2	na
Mean ideal number of children among women and men age 15-49	u	u
Currently married women age 15-49 currently using a modern method of contraception (%) and currently married men who used a method with their last partner (%)	u	u

	Women	Men	Notes
Are children treated differently based on their gender?
Primary school age children (6-11 years) that are attending primary school (%)	u	u
Secondary school age children (12-17 years) that are attending secondary school (%)	u	u

	Women	Men	Notes
Does society justify wife beating?
Women and men age 15-49 who agree that a husband is justified in beating his wife if:
she burns the food (%)	u	u
she argues with him (%)	u	u
she goes out without telling him (%)	u	u
she neglects the children (%)	u	u
she refuses to have sex with him (%)	u	u
at least one of these reasons (%)	u	u

	Women	Men	Notes
Do women and men experience physical or sexual violence?
Women and men age 15-49 who have experienced physical violence by anyone:
since age 15 (%)	u	u
in the past 12 months (%)	u	u
Women and men age 15-49 who have ever experienced sexual violence by anyone (%)	u	u
Ever-married women and men age 15-49 who have experienced physical or sexual violence by their spouse or partner:
ever (%)	u	u
in the last 12 months (%)	u	u

	Women	Men	Notes
Do women and men have the knowledge and empowerment necessary to reduce their risk of contracting HIV?
Women and men age 15-49 who know that the risk of contracting HIV can be reduced by:
using condoms (%)	68.6	76.3
limiting sex to one uninfected faithful partner (%)	81.8	86.6
Women and men age 15-49 who know that a healthy-looking person can have HIV (%)	79.5	85.6
Women and men age 15-49 who had sex with more than one partner in the 12 months preceding the survey among those who had sex during the period (%)	3.4	24.9
Mean lifetime number of sexual partners among those who have ever had sex	2.4	6.8
Women and men age 15-49 who were tested and received results from an HIV test takenin the 12 months before the survey (%)	19.1	18.9

	Women	Men	Notes
Does HIV affect women disproportionately?
Women and men age 15-49 who tested HIV-positive (%)	6.6	4.6

^na not applicable ^u data not collected or cannot be calculated