| Author(s) |
Statistics Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone ICF International, Rockville, Maryland USA |
| Date |
2014-07-01 |
| Country |
Sierra Leone |
| Language |
English |
| Table of contents |
FOREWORD
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL INDICATORS
MAP OF SIERRA LEONE
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Geography, History, and the Economy
1.1.1 Geography
1.1.2 History
1.1.3 Economy
1.2 Population
1.3 Population and Family Planning Policies and Programmes
1.4 Health Priorities and Programmes
1.5 Strategic Framework to Combat the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
1.6 Objectives of the 2013 SLDHS
1.7 Survey Organisation
1.8 Sample Design
1.9 Questionnaires
1.10 HIV Testing
1.11 Training and Pretest
1.12 Fieldwork
1.13 Data Processing
1.14 Response Rates
2 HOUSING CHARACTERISTICS AND HOUSEHOLD POPULATION
2.1 Household Environment
2.1.1 Drinking Water
2.1.2 Household Sanitation Facilities
2.1.3 Housing Characteristics
2.1.4 Household Possessions
2.2 Wealth Index
2.3 Hand Washing
2.4 Population by Age and Sex
2.5 Household Composition
2.6 Birth Registration
2.7 Children’s Living Arrangements and Orphanhood
2.8 School Attendance by Survivorship of Parents
2.9 Education of the Household Population
2.9.1 Educational Attainment
2.9.2 School Attendance Rates
2.10 Child Labour
2.10.1 Occurrence of Child Labour
2.10.2 Child Labour and School Attendance
3 CHARACTERISTICS OF RESPONDENTS
3.1 Characteristics of Survey Respondents
3.2 Educational Attainment by Background Characteristics
3.3 Literacy
3.4 Access to Mass Media
3.5 Employment
3.6 Occupation
3.7 Type of Employment
3.8 Health Insurance Coverage
3.9 Smoking
4 MARRIAGE AND SEXUAL ACTIVITY
4.1 Current Marital Status
4.2 Polygyny
4.3 Age at First Marriage
4.4 Age at First Sexual Intercourse
4.5 Recent Sexual Activity
5 FERTILITY
5.1 Current Fertility
5.2 Fertility Differentials
5.3 Fertility Trends
5.4 Children Ever Born and Living
5.5 Birth Intervals
5.6 Postpartum Amenorrhoea, Abstinence, and Insusceptibility
5.7 Menopause
5.8 Age at First Birth
5.9 Teenage Pregnancy and Motherhood
6 FERTILITY PREFERENCES
6.1 Desire for More Children
6.2 Desire to Limit Childbearing by Background Characteristics
6.3 Ideal Number of Children
6.4 Fertility Planning Status
7 FAMILY PLANNING
7.1 Knowledge of Contraceptive Methods
7.2 Current Use of Contraceptive Methods
7.3 Differentials in Contraceptive Use by Background Characteristics
7.4 Source of Contraception
7.5 Informed Choice
7.6 Contraceptive Discontinuation
7.7 Knowledge of the Fertile Period
7.8 Need and Demand for Family Planning
7.9 Future Use of Contraception
7.10 Exposure to Family Planning Messages in the Media
7.11 Contact of Non-users with Family Planning Providers
8 INFANT AND CHILD MORTALITY
8.1 Methodological Considerations
8.2 Assessment of Data Quality
8.3 Levels and Trends of Infant and Child Mortality
8.4 Socioeconomic Differentials in Infant and Child Mortality
8.5 Demographic Differentials in Child Mortality
8.6 Perinatal Mortality
8.7 High-risk Fertility Behaviour
9 REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
9.1 Antenatal Care
9.2 Number of ANC Visits and Timing of First Visits
9.3 Components of Antenatal Care
9.4 Tetanus Toxoid Injections
9.5 Place of Delivery
9.6 Assistance during Delivery
9.7 Postnatal Care
9.7.1 Postnatal Care for Mother
9.7.2 Postnatal Care for Newborn
9.8 Problems in Accessing Health Care
10 CHILD HEALTH
10.1 Weight and Size at Birth
10.2 Vaccination of Children
10.3 Acute Respiratory Infection
10.4 Fever
10.5 Prevalence of Diarrhoea
10.6 Diarrhoea Treatment
10.7 Feeding Practices
10.8 Knowledge of ORS Packets
10.9 Stool Disposal
11 NUTRITION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS
11.1 Nutritional Status of Children
11.1.1 Measurement of Nutritional Status among Young Children
11.1.2 Results of Data Collection
11.1.3 Levels of Malnutrition
11.2 Initiation of Breastfeeding
11.3 Breastfeeding Status by Age
11.4 Duration of Breastfeeding
11.5 Types of Complementary Foods
11.6 Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices
11.7 Prevalence of Anaemia in Children
11.8 Micronutrient Intake among Children
11.9 Presence of Iodised Salt in Households
11.10 Nutritional Status of Women and Men
11.11 Prevalence of Anaemia among Women and Men
11.12 Micronutrient Intake among Mothers
12 MALARIA
12.1 Mosquito Nets
12.1.1 Ownership of Mosquito Nets
12.1.2 Access to an Insecticide-Treated Net (ITN)
12.1.3 Use of Mosquito Nets by Persons in the Household
12.1.4 Use of existing ITNs
12.1.5 Use of Mosquito Nets by Children under Age 5
12.1.6 Use of Mosquito Nets by Pregnant Women
12.2 Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS)
12.3 Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy
12.4 Prevalence and Prompt Treatment of Children with Fever
12.5 Prevalence of Anaemia in Children
13 ADULT AND MATERNAL MORTALITY
13.1 Data
13.2 Estimates of Adult Mortality
13.3 Estimates of Maternal Mortality
14 HIV/AIDS-RELATED KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, AND BEHAVIOUR
14.1 HIV/AIDS Knowledge of Transmission and Prevention Methods
14.1.1 Awareness of HIV/AIDS
14.1.2 Knowledge of HIV Prevention Methods
14.1.3 Rejection of Misconceptions about HIV/AIDS
14.1.4 Knowledge of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
14.2 Attitudes towards People Living with AIDS
14.3 Attitudes towards Negotiating Safer Sex
14.4 Attitudes towards Condom Education for Youth
14.5 Higher-risk Sex
14.5.1 Multiple Partners and Condom Use
14.5.2 Concurrent Sexual Partners
14.5.3 Transactional Sex
14.6 Coverage of HIV Counselling and Testing
14.6.1 General HIV Testing
14.6.2 HIV Counselling and Testing during Pregnancy
14.7 Self-reporting of Sexually Transmitted Infections
14.8 Prevalence of Medical Injections
14.9 HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Sexual Behaviour among Youth
14.9.1 HIV/AIDS-related Knowledge among Young Adults
14.9.2 Trends in Age at First Sex
14.9.3 Knowledge of Condom Sources among Young Adults
14.9.4 Abstinence and Premarital Sex
14.9.5 Multiple Sexual Partners
14.9.6 Cross-generational Sexual Partners
14.9.7 Voluntary HIV Counselling and Testing among Young Adults
15 HIV PREVALENCE
15.1 Coverage Rates for HIV Testing
15.2 HIV Prevalence
15.2.1 HIV Prevalence by Age and Sex4
15.2.2 Trends in HIV Prevalence
15.2.3 HIV Prevalence by Socioeconomic Characteristics
15.2.4 HIV Prevalence by Demographic Characteristics
15.2.5 HIV Prevalence by Sexual Risk Behaviour
15.3 HIV Prevalence among Youth
15.3.1 HIV Prevalence by Sexual Behaviour among Youth
15.4 HIV Prevalence by Other Characteristics
15.4.1 HIV Prevalence and STIs
15.4.2 Prior HIV Testing
15.5 HIV Prevalence among Cohabiting Couples
16 WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT AND DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH OUTCOMES
16.1 Employment and Form of Earnings
16.2 Control over Earnings
16.2.1 Control over Wife’s Earnings
16.2.2 Control over Husband’s Earnings
16.3 Women’s Control over Earnings by Magnitude of Earnings
16.4 Ownership of Assets
16.5 Participation in Decision-making
16.6 Attitudes towards Wife Beating
16.7 Women’s Empowerment Indicators
16.8 Current Use of Contraception by Women’s Status
16.9 Ideal Family Size and Unmet Need by Women’s Status
16.10 Women’s Status and Reproductive Health Care
17 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
17.1 Data Collection
17.1.1 The Use of Valid Measures of Violence
17.1.2 Ethical Considerations
17.1.3 Characteristics of the Sub-Sample of Respondents for the Violence Module
17.2 Experience of Violence by Women and Men
17.3 Experience of Physical Violence and Perpetrators of Physical Violence
17.4 Experience of Sexual Violence and Perpetrators of Sexual Violence
17.5 Experience of Different Types of Violence
17.6 Violence during Pregnancy
17.7 Marital Control
17.8 Spousal/Intimate Partner Violence
17.9 Violence by Spousal Characteristics and Empowerment Indicators5
17.10 Frequency of Spousal Violence
17.11 Physical Consequences of Spousal Violence
17.12 Physical Violence by Women and Men Against Their Spouses
17.13 Response to Violence
18 FEMALE GENITAL CUTTING
18.1 Knowledge and Prevalence of Female Genital Cutting
18.2 Age at Circumcision
18.3 Religious Attitudes towards Practice of FGC
18.4 Attitudes towards Continued Practice of FGC
REFERENCES
APPENDIX A SAMPLE DESIGN
A.1 Objectives of the Survey
A.2 Sampling Frame
A.3 Sample Allocation and Sample Selection
A.4 Selection Probability and Sampling Weight
A.5 Survey Results
APPENDIX B ESTIMATES OF SAMPLING ERRORS
APPENDIX C DATA QUALITY TABLES
APPENDIX D PERSONS INVOLVED IN THE SURVEY
APPENDIX E QUESTIONNAIRES |
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