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Table 1 Description of Demographic and Health Surveys data by countries, in sub-Saharan Africa, 2007 to 2016

From: Women empowerment as an enabling factor of contraceptive use in sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel analysis of cross-sectional surveys of 32 countries

     

Human Development Index (HDI)

Country

Survey year

Number of children

Number of neighbourhoods

Contraceptive (%)

Value

Category

Angola

2016

14,379

625

19.1

0.532

High HDI

Benin

2012

16,599

750

27.4

0.485

Moderate HDI

Burkina Faso

2010

17,087

573

24.1

0.402

Low HDI

Burundia

2011

9389

376

20.8

0.404

Low HDI

Cameroon

2011

15,426

578

43.7

0.518

Moderate HDI

Chada

2015

17,719

624

6.7

0.396

Low HDI

Comoros

2012

5329

252

22.5

0.727

High HDI

Congo

2012

10,819

384

69.3

0.592

High HDI

Congo DRa

2014

18,827

536

30.1

0.435

Low HDI

Cote d’Ivoire

2012

10,060

351

35.5

0.474

Moderate HDI

Ethiopia

2008

15,683

643

37.5

0.448

Low HDI

Gabon

2012

8422

336

49.6

0.697

High HDI

Gambia

2013

10,233

281

14.4

0.452

Low HDI

Ghana

2014

9396

427

42.7

0.579

High HDI

Guinea

2012

9142

300

15.2

0.414

Low HDI

Kenya

2014

31,079

1593

56.3

0.555

High HDI

Lesotho

2014

6621

399

69.6

0.497

Moderate HDI

Liberiaa

2013

9239

322

34.5

0.427

Low HDI

Malawi

2016

24,562

850

68.7

0.476

Moderate HDI

Malia

2013

10,424

413

20.7

0.442

Low HDI

Mozambique

2011

13,745

610

32.1

0.418

Low HDI

Namibia

2013

10,018

549

71.7

0.640

High HDI

Niger

2012

11,160

476

28.7

0.353

Low HDI

Nigeria

2013

38,948

896

24.2

0.527

Moderate HDI

Rwandaa

2015

13,497

492

45.7

0.498

Moderate HDI

Senegal

2015

8851

214

27.9

0.494

Moderate HDI

Sierra Leonea

2013

16,658

435

33.3

0.420

Low HDI

Tanzania

2016

13,266

608

48.7

0.531

High HDI

Togo

2014

9480

330

32.9

0.487

Moderate HDI

Uganda

2011

8674

404

44.3

0.493

Moderate HDI

Zambia

2014

16,411

721

54.9

0.579

High HDI

Zimbabwe

2015

9955

400

68.5

0.516

Moderate HDI

  1. aPost-conflict countries