| Author(s) | Zambia Statistics Agency (Formerly Central Statistical Office), Lusaka, Zambia Ministry of Health, Lusaka, Zambia University Teaching Hospital Virology Laboratory, Lusaka, Zambia The DHS Program, ICF, Rockville, Maryland, USA | 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                        | Date | 2020-01-01 | 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                        | Country | Zambia | 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
                                                        | Table of contents | TABLES AND FIGURES ........................................................................................................................... ix FOREWORD ............................................................................................................................................. xix
 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................................. xxi
 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL (SDG) INDICATORS ................................................... xxiii
 READING AND UNDERSTANDING TABLES FROM THE 2018 ZAMBIA
 DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEY (ZDHS) ............................................................ xxv
 MAP OF ZAMBIA ................................................................................................................................. xxxii
 
 1 INTRODUCTION AND SURVEY METHODOLOGY .............................................................. 1
 1.1 Survey Objectives ................................................................................................................ 1
 1.2 Sample Design ..................................................................................................................... 1
 1.3 Questionnaires ..................................................................................................................... 2
 1.4 Anthropometry, Anaemia Testing, and HIV Testing .......................................................... 3
 1.4.1 Anthropometry Measurements ............................................................................... 3
 1.4.2 Anaemia Testing .................................................................................................... 4
 1.4.3 HIV Testing ........................................................................................................... 4
 1.5 Pretest .................................................................................................................................. 5
 1.6 Training of Field Staff ......................................................................................................... 6
 1.7 Fieldwork ............................................................................................................................. 7
 1.8 Data Processing ................................................................................................................... 7
 1.9 Response Rates .................................................................................................................... 7
 
 2 HOUSING CHARACTERISTICS AND HOUSEHOLD POPULATION ................................ 9
 2.1 Housing Characteristics ....................................................................................................... 9
 2.1.1 Drinking Water Sources and Treatment ................................................................. 9
 2.1.2 Sanitation ............................................................................................................. 10
 2.1.3 Exposure to Smoke inside the Home ................................................................... 11
 2.1.4 Other Housing Characteristics ............................................................................. 11
 2.1.5 Household Wealth ................................................................................................ 12
 2.1.6 Handwashing ....................................................................................................... 12
 2.2 Household Population and Composition ........................................................................... 12
 2.3 Children’s Living Arrangements and Parental Survival .................................................... 13
 2.4 Birth Registration .............................................................................................................. 14
 2.5 Education ........................................................................................................................... 15
 2.5.1 Educational Attainment ....................................................................................... 15
 2.5.2 School Attendance and Orphanhood .................................................................... 16
 
 3 CHARACTERISTICS OF RESPONDENTS ............................................................................. 33
 3.1 Basic Characteristics of Survey Respondents .................................................................... 33
 3.2 Education and Literacy ...................................................................................................... 34
 3.3 Mass Media Exposure ....................................................................................................... 35
 3.4 Employment ...................................................................................................................... 36
 3.5 Occupation ......................................................................................................................... 37
 3.6 Health Insurance Coverage ................................................................................................ 37
 3.7 Tobacco Use ...................................................................................................................... 37
 3.8 Surgery .............................................................................................................................. 38
 
 4 MARRIAGE AND SEXUAL ACTIVITY .................................................................................. 61
 4.1 Marital Status ..................................................................................................................... 61
 4.2 Polygyny ............................................................................................................................ 62
 4.3 Age at First Marriage ......................................................................................................... 63
 4.4 Age at First Sexual Intercourse ......................................................................................... 63
 4.5 Recent Sexual Activity ...................................................................................................... 64
 
 5 FERTILITY ................................................................................................................................... 73
 5.1 Current Fertility ................................................................................................................. 73
 5.2 Children Ever Born and Living ......................................................................................... 74
 5.3 Birth Intervals .................................................................................................................... 75
 5.4 Insusceptibility to Pregnancy ............................................................................................. 76
 5.5 Menopause ......................................................................................................................... 77
 5.6 Age at First Birth ............................................................................................................... 77
 5.7 Teenage Childbearing ........................................................................................................ 78
 5.8 Sexual and Reproductive Behaviours before Age 15 ........................................................ 78
 
 6 FERTILITY PREFERENCES ..................................................................................................... 89
 6.1 Desire for Another Child ................................................................................................... 89
 6.2 Ideal Family Size ............................................................................................................... 90
 6.3 Fertility Planning Status .................................................................................................... 91
 6.4 Wanted Fertility Rates ....................................................................................................... 92
 
 7 FAMILY PLANNING .................................................................................................................. 99
 7.1 Contraceptive Knowledge and Use ................................................................................... 99
 7.2 Source of Modern Contraceptive Methods ...................................................................... 101
 7.3 Informed Choice .............................................................................................................. 101
 7.4 Discontinuation of Contraceptives .................................................................................. 102
 7.5 Demand for Family Planning .......................................................................................... 102
 7.5.1 Decision Making about Family Planning ........................................................... 103
 7.5.2 Future Use of Contraception .............................................................................. 104
 7.5.3 Exposure to Family Planning Messages in the Media ....................................... 104
 7.6 Contact of Nonusers with Family Planning Providers ..................................................... 104
 7.7 Exposure to Specific Radio and Television Programmes ................................................ 104
 
 8 INFANT AND CHILD MORTALITY ...................................................................................... 121
 8.1 Infant and Child Mortality ............................................................................................... 122
 8.2 Biodemographic Risk Factors ......................................................................................... 123
 8.3 Perinatal Mortality ........................................................................................................... 124
 8.4 High-risk Fertility Behaviour .......................................................................................... 124
 
 9 MATERNAL HEALTH CARE ................................................................................................. 131
 9.1 Antenatal Care Coverage and Content ............................................................................ 131
 9.1.1 Skilled Providers ................................................................................................ 131
 9.1.2 Timing and Number of ANC Visits ................................................................... 132
 9.2 Components of ANC Visits ............................................................................................. 133
 9.3 Protection against Neonatal Tetanus ............................................................................... 133
 9.4 Delivery Services ............................................................................................................. 134
 9.4.1 Institutional Deliveries ....................................................................................... 134
 9.4.2 Skilled Assistance during Delivery .................................................................... 135
 9.4.3 Delivery by Caesarean ....................................................................................... 136
 9.5 Postnatal Care .................................................................................................................. 136
 9.5.1 Postnatal Health Check for Mothers .................................................................. 136
 9.5.2 Postnatal Health Check for Newborns ............................................................... 137
 9.6 Problems in Accessing Health Care ................................................................................ 138
 9.7 Obstetric Fistula ............................................................................................................... 139
 
 10 CHILD HEALTH ........................................................................................................................ 155
 10.1 Birth Weight .................................................................................................................... 155
 10.2 Vaccination of Children ................................................................................................... 156
 10.3 Symptoms of Acute Respiratory Infection ...................................................................... 158
 10.4 Fever ................................................................................................................................ 159
 10.5 Diarrhoeal Disease ........................................................................................................... 159
 10.5.1 Prevalence of Diarrhoea and Treatment-seeking Behaviour .............................. 159
 10.5.2 Feeding Practices ............................................................................................... 160
 10.5.3 Oral Rehydration Therapy and Other Treatments .............................................. 160
 10.6 Treatment of Childhood Illness ....................................................................................... 161
 10.7 Disposal of Children’s Stools .......................................................................................... 162
 
 11 NUTRITION OF CHILDREN AND WOMEN ........................................................................ 177
 11.1 Nutritional Status of Children .......................................................................................... 177
 11.1.1 Anthropometry Training and Data Collection ................................................... 179
 11.1.2 Levels of Child Malnutrition ............................................................................. 179
 11.2 Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices ...................................................................... 180
 11.2.1 Early Initiation of Breastfeeding ........................................................................ 180
 11.2.2 Exclusive Breastfeeding ..................................................................................... 181
 11.2.3 Median Duration of Breastfeeding ..................................................................... 182
 11.2.4 Bottle Feeding .................................................................................................... 183
 11.2.5 Introduction of Complementary Foods .............................................................. 183
 11.2.6 Minimum Dietary Diversity, Minimum Meal Frequency, and Minimum Acceptable Diet ..... 183
 11.3 Anaemia Prevalence in Children ..................................................................................... 185
 11.4 Micronutrient Intake and Supplementation among Children ........................................... 186
 11.5 Anaemia Prevalence in Women....................................................................................... 187
 11.6 Micronutrient Supplementation and Deworming During Pregnancy .............................. 188
 
 12 MALARIA ................................................................................................................................... 201
 12.1 Ownership of Insecticide-treated Nets ............................................................................. 202
 12.2 Household Access to and Use of ITNs ............................................................................ 203
 12.3 Use of ITNs by Children and Pregnant Women .............................................................. 205
 12.4 Indoor Residual Spraying ................................................................................................ 206
 12.5 Malaria in Pregnancy ....................................................................................................... 206
 12.6 Case Management of Malaria in Children ....................................................................... 207
 12.7 Prevalence of Low Haemoglobin in Children ................................................................. 208
 
 13 HIV/AIDS-RELATED KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, AND BEHAVIOUR ....................... 223
 13.1 HIV/AIDS Knowledge, Transmission, and Prevention Methods .................................... 223
 13.2 Knowledge about Mother-to-Child Transmission ........................................................... 224
 13.3 Discriminatory Attitudes towards People Living with HIV ............................................ 225
 13.4 Multiple Sexual Partners ................................................................................................. 226
 13.5 Paid Sex ........................................................................................................................... 227
 13.6 Coverage of HIV Testing Services .................................................................................. 227
 13.6.1 Awareness of HIV Testing Services and Experience with HIV Testing ........... 228
 13.6.2 HIV Testing of Pregnant Women ...................................................................... 228
 13.6.3 Disclosure of HIV Test Results ......................................................................... 229
 13.6.4 HIV Self-testing ................................................................................................. 229
 13.7 Male Circumcision .......................................................................................................... 230
 13.8 Self-reporting of Sexually Transmitted Infections .......................................................... 230
 13.9 HIV/AIDS-related Knowledge and Behaviour among Young People ............................ 231
 13.9.1 Knowledge ......................................................................................................... 231
 13.9.2 First Sex ............................................................................................................. 232
 13.9.3 Premarital Sex .................................................................................................... 232
 13.9.4 Multiple Sexual Partners .................................................................................... 232
 13.9.5 Coverage of HIV Testing Services .................................................................... 233
 13.9.6 Age-mixing in Sexual Relationships .................................................................. 233
 13.9.7 Drunkenness and Sexual Intercourse among Young People .............................. 233
 
 14 HIV PREVALENCE ................................................................................................................... 259
 14.1 Coverage Rates for HIV Testing ..................................................................................... 259
 14.2 HIV Prevalence ............................................................................................................... 260
 14.2.1 HIV Prevalence by Age and Sex ........................................................................ 260
 14.2.2 HIV Prevalence by Sexual Risk Behaviour ....................................................... 262
 14.2.3 HIV Prevalence among Young People .............................................................. 263
 14.2.4 HIV Prevalence by Other Characteristics Related to HIV Risk ......................... 263
 14.2.5 HIV Prevalence among Couples ........................................................................ 264
 
 15 ADULT AND MATERNAL MORTALITY ............................................................................. 275
 15.1 Data ................................................................................................................................. 275
 15.2 Direct Estimates of Adult Mortality ................................................................................ 276
 15.3 Trends in Adult Mortality ................................................................................................ 277
 15.4 Direct Estimates of Maternal Mortality ........................................................................... 277
 15.5 Trends in Pregnancy-related Mortality ............................................................................ 278
 
 16 WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT ................................................................................................ 283
 16.1 Married Women’s and Men’s Employment .................................................................... 284
 16.2 Control over Women’s Earnings ..................................................................................... 284
 16.3 Control over Men’s Earnings .......................................................................................... 285
 16.4 Women’s and Men’s Ownership of Assets ..................................................................... 286
 16.4.1 Documentation of Ownership of Assets ............................................................ 286
 16.4.2 Bank Accounts and Mobile Phones ................................................................... 286
 16.5 Women’s Participation in Decision Making .................................................................... 287
 16.6 Attitudes toward Wife Beating ........................................................................................ 287
 16.7 Negotiating Sexual Relations .......................................................................................... 288
 16.8 Widows Dispossessed of Property .................................................................................. 289
 
 17 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ........................................................................................................... 311
 17.1 Measurement of Violence ................................................................................................ 312
 17.2 Women’s Experience of Physical Violence .................................................................... 312
 17.2.1 Prevalence of Physical Violence ........................................................................ 312
 17.2.2 Perpetrators of Physical Violence ...................................................................... 313
 17.3 Experience of Sexual Violence ........................................................................................ 313
 17.3.1 Prevalence of Sexual Violence .......................................................................... 313
 17.3.2 Perpetrators of Sexual Violence ......................................................................... 314
 17.4 Experience of Different Forms of Violence .................................................................... 314
 17.5 Marital Control by Husband ............................................................................................ 314
 17.6 Forms of Spousal Violence .............................................................................................. 315
 17.6.1 Prevalence of Spousal Violence ......................................................................... 315
 17.6.2 Experience of Spousal Violence by Duration of Marriage ................................ 317
 17.7 Injuries to Women due to Spousal Violence ................................................................... 317
 17.8 Violence Initiated by Women against Husbands ............................................................. 318
 17.9 Help Seeking among Women Who Have Experienced Violence .................................... 318
 
 REFERENCES ......................................................................................................................................... 335
 APPENDIX A SAMPLE DESIGN ........................................................................................................ 337
 A.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 337
 A.2 Sample Frame .................................................................................................................. 337
 A.3 Sample Design and Implementation ................................................................................ 338
 A.4 Sample Probabilities and Sampling Weights ................................................................... 339
 
 APPENDIX B ESTIMATES OF SAMPLING ERRORS ................................................................... 347
 APPENDIX C DATA QUALITY TABLES ......................................................................................... 377
 APPENDIX D CONTRIBUTORS TO THE 2018 ZDHS .................................................................... 385
 APPENDIX E QUESTIONNAIRES ..................................................................................................... 391
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