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Population and Family Health Survey 2017-2018

Jordan, 2017 - 2018
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JOR_2017_DHS_v01_M
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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Jordan Population and Family Health Survey 2017, Household Questionnaire
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Author(s) Department of Statistics
Date 2017-02-12
Country Jordan
Language English
Download https://microdata.worldbank.org//catalog/3435/download/46304
Jordan Population and Family Health Survey 2017, Woman's Questionnaire
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Author(s) Department of Statistics
Date 2017-02-06
Country Jordan
Language English
Download https://microdata.worldbank.org//catalog/3435/download/46305
Jordan Population and Family Health Survey 2017, Man's Questionnaire
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Author(s) Department of Statistics
Date 2017-02-06
Country Jordan
Language English
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Jordan Population and Family Health Survey 2017, Biomarker Questionnaire
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Author(s) Department of Statistics
Date 2017-02-07
Country Jordan
Language English
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Reports
Jordan Population and Family Health Survey 2017-18, Report
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Author(s) Department of Statistics, Amman, Jordan The DHS Program, ICF, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Date 2019-03-01
Country Jordan
Language English
Table of contents READING AND UNDERSTANDING TABLES FROM THE 2017-18 JPFHS .................................. xxi
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL INDICATORS ................................................................ xxix
MAP OF JORDAN ................................................................................................................................... xxx

1 INTRODUCTION AND SURVEY METHODOLOGY .............................................................. 1
1.1 Survey Objectives ................................................................................................................ 1
1.2 Sample Design ..................................................................................................................... 2
1.3 Questionnaires ..................................................................................................................... 4
1.4 Anthropometry and Anaemia Testing ................................................................................. 5
1.5 Pretest .................................................................................................................................. 5
1.6 Training of Field Staff ......................................................................................................... 5
1.7 Fieldwork ............................................................................................................................. 6
1.8 Data Processing ................................................................................................................... 6
1.9 Response Rates .................................................................................................................... 6

2 HOUSING CHARACTERISTICS AND HOUSEHOLD POPULATION ............................... 7
2.1 Drinking Water Sources and Treatment .............................................................................. 7
2.2 Sanitation ............................................................................................................................. 8
2.3 Other Household Characteristics ......................................................................................... 9
2.3.1 Housing Characteristics ......................................................................................... 9
2.3.2 Exposure to Smoke in the Home ............................................................................ 9
2.3.3 Diabetes ................................................................................................................. 9
2.4 Household Wealth ............................................................................................................... 9
2.4.1 Household Durable Goods ..................................................................................... 9
2.4.2 Wealth Index ........................................................................................................ 10
2.5 Household Population and Composition ........................................................................... 10
2.6 Children’s Living Arrangements and Parental Survival .................................................... 11
2.7 Birth Registration .............................................................................................................. 12
2.8 Education ........................................................................................................................... 12
2.8.1 Educational Attainment ....................................................................................... 12
2.8.2 School Attendance ............................................................................................... 13

3 CHARACTERISTICS OF RESPONDENTS ............................................................................. 33
3.1 Basic Characteristics of Survey Respondents .................................................................... 33
3.2 Education and Literacy ...................................................................................................... 34
3.3 Mass Media Exposure and Internet Usage ........................................................................ 35
3.4 Employment ...................................................................................................................... 37
3.5 Occupation ......................................................................................................................... 38
3.6 Health Insurance Coverage ................................................................................................ 39
3.7 Tobacco Use ...................................................................................................................... 39

4 MARRIAGE AND EXPOSURE TO THE RISK OF PREGNANCY ...................................... 61
4.1 Marital Status ..................................................................................................................... 61
4.2 Polygyny ............................................................................................................................ 62
4.3 Consanguinity .................................................................................................................... 63
4.4 Age at First Marriage ......................................................................................................... 63
4.5 Recent Sexual Activity ...................................................................................................... 64

5 FERTILITY ................................................................................................................................... 75
5.1 Current Fertility ................................................................................................................. 75
5.2 Children Ever Born and Living ......................................................................................... 77
5.3 Birth Intervals .................................................................................................................... 77
5.4 Insusceptibility to Pregnancy ............................................................................................. 78
5.5 Age at First Birth ............................................................................................................... 79
5.6 Teenage Childbearing ........................................................................................................ 79

6 FERTILITY PREFERENCES ..................................................................................................... 91
6.1 Desire for Another Child ................................................................................................... 91
6.2 Ideal Family Size ............................................................................................................... 93
6.3 Fertility Planning Status .................................................................................................... 94
6.4 Wanted Fertility Rates ....................................................................................................... 94

7 FAMILY PLANNING ................................................................................................................ 103
7.1 Contraceptive Knowledge and Use ................................................................................. 103
7.1.1 Timing of Sterilisation ....................................................................................... 106
7.2 Source of Modern Contraceptive Methods ...................................................................... 106
7.3 Informed Choice .............................................................................................................. 107
7.4 Discontinuation of Contraceptives .................................................................................. 107
7.5 Demand for Family Planning .......................................................................................... 108
7.5.1 Decision Making about Family Planning ........................................................... 110
7.5.2 Future Use of Contraception .............................................................................. 110
7.5.3 Exposure to Family Planning Messages in the Media ....................................... 110
7.6 Contact of Nonusers with Family Planning Providers ..................................................... 110

8 INFANT AND CHILD MORTALITY ...................................................................................... 133
8.1 Infant and Child Mortality ............................................................................................... 134
8.2 Perinatal Mortality ........................................................................................................... 137
8.3 High-risk Fertility Behaviour .......................................................................................... 137

9 MATERNAL HEALTH CARE ................................................................................................. 143
9.1 Antenatal Care Coverage and Content ............................................................................ 144
9.1.1 Skilled Providers ................................................................................................ 144
9.1.2 Number and Timing of ANC Visits ................................................................... 144
9.2 Components of ANC Visits ............................................................................................. 145
9.3 Protection against Neonatal Tetanus ............................................................................... 145
9.4 Delivery Services ............................................................................................................. 146
9.4.1 Institutional Deliveries ....................................................................................... 146
9.4.2 Skilled Assistance during Delivery .................................................................... 147
9.4.3 Delivery by Caesarean ....................................................................................... 148
9.5 Postnatal Care .................................................................................................................. 149
9.5.1 Postnatal Health Check for Mothers .................................................................. 149
9.5.2 Postnatal Health Check for Newborns ............................................................... 150
9.6 Problems in Accessing Health Care ................................................................................ 150
9.7 Premarital Medical Exams, Breast Exams, and Pap Tests .............................................. 151
9.7.1 Premarital Medical Exam .................................................................................. 151
9.7.2 Breast Exam ....................................................................................................... 151
9.7.3 Pap Test.............................................................................................................. 151

10 CHILD HEALTH ........................................................................................................................ 173
10.1 Birth Weight .................................................................................................................... 173
10.2 Vaccination of Children ................................................................................................... 174
10.3 Symptoms of Acute Respiratory Infection ...................................................................... 176
10.4 Fever ................................................................................................................................ 177
10.5 Diarrhoeal Disease ........................................................................................................... 178
10.5.1 Prevalence of Diarrhoea ..................................................................................... 178
10.5.2 Feeding Practices ............................................................................................... 178
10.5.3 Treatment of Diarrhoea ...................................................................................... 179
10.5.4 Knowledge of ORS Packets ............................................................................... 179
10.6 Treatment of Childhood Illness ....................................................................................... 180

11 NUTRITION OF CHILDREN AND WOMEN ........................................................................ 197
11.1 Infant and Young Child Feeding ..................................................................................... 197
11.1.1 Breastfeeding ..................................................................................................... 198
11.1.2 Exclusive Breastfeeding ..................................................................................... 198
11.1.3 Median Duration of Breastfeeding ..................................................................... 200
11.1.4 Breastfeeding Status and Complementary Feeding by Age ............................... 200
11.1.5 Minimum Acceptable Diet ................................................................................. 201
11.2 Anaemia Prevalence in Children ..................................................................................... 203
11.3 Micronutrient Intake and Supplementation among Children ........................................... 204
11.4 Women’s Nutritional Status ............................................................................................ 205
11.5 Anaemia Prevalence in Women....................................................................................... 206
11.6 Micronutrient Intake among Mothers .............................................................................. 207

12 HIV/AIDS-RELATED KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES ................................................. 219
12.1 HIV/AIDS Knowledge, Transmission, and Prevention Methods .................................... 219
12.2 Knowledge about Mother-to-Child Transmission ........................................................... 221
12.3 Discriminatory Attitudes towards People Living with HIV ............................................ 221
12.4 Awareness of HIV Testing Services ................................................................................ 222
12.5 Knowledge and Self-reporting of Sexually Transmitted Infections ................................ 222
12.6 HIV/AIDS-related Knowledge among Young People ..................................................... 223

13 WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT ................................................................................................ 233
13.1 Married Women’s and Men’s Employment .................................................................... 233
13.2 Control over Women’s Earnings ..................................................................................... 234
13.3 Control over Men’s Earnings .......................................................................................... 235
13.4 Women’s and Men’s Ownership of Assets ..................................................................... 235
13.5 Bank Accounts and Mobile Phones ................................................................................. 236
13.6 Women’s Participation in Decision Making .................................................................... 237
13.7 Attitudes toward Wife Beating ........................................................................................ 238
13.8 Negotiating Sexual Relations .......................................................................................... 239

14 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ........................................................................................................... 257
14.1 Measurement of Violence ................................................................................................ 257
14.2 Women’s Experience of Physical Violence .................................................................... 258
14.2.1 Perpetrators of Physical Violence ...................................................................... 259
14.3 Experience of Spousal Sexual Violence .......................................................................... 259
14.4 Experience of Different Forms of Violence .................................................................... 260
14.5 Marital Control by Husband ............................................................................................ 260
14.6 Forms of Spousal Violence .............................................................................................. 261
14.6.1 Prevalence of Spousal Violence ......................................................................... 261
14.6.2 Onset of Spousal Violence ................................................................................. 263
14.7 Injuries to Women due to Spousal Violence ................................................................... 263
14.8 Violence Initiated by Women against Husbands ............................................................. 263
14.9 Help Seeking among Women Who Have Experienced Violence .................................... 264
14.9.1 Sources for Help ................................................................................................ 264

15 EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND CHILD DISCIPLINE ........................................... 281
15.1 Early Childhood Education ............................................................................................. 281
15.2 Childhood Learning ......................................................................................................... 282
15.2.1 Support for Learning .......................................................................................... 283
15.2.2 Children’s Books and Playthings ....................................................................... 283
15.3 Adequate Care for Young Children ................................................................................. 284
15.4 Developmentally on Track .............................................................................................. 285
15.5 Child Discipline ............................................................................................................... 286

16 HEALTH CARE UTILISATION AND FINANCING ............................................................ 297
16.1 Inpatient Care .................................................................................................................. 298
16.2 Outpatient Care ................................................................................................................ 298
16.3 Health Insurance .............................................................................................................. 299

REFERENCES ......................................................................................................................................... 305
APPENDIX A SAMPLE DESIGN ........................................................................................................ 307
A.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 307
A.2 Sampling Frame ............................................................................................................... 307
A.3 Sample Design and Sampling Procedure ......................................................................... 309
A.4 Selection Probabilities and Sampling Weights ................................................................ 311
A.5 Survey Implementation Results ....................................................................................... 312
APPENDIX B ESTIMATES OF SAMPLING ERRORS ................................................................... 315
APPENDIX C DATA QUALITY TABLES ......................................................................................... 339
APPENDIX D QUESTIONNAIRES ..................................................................................................... 343
Download https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/FR346/FR346.pdf
2017-18 Population and Family Health Survey, Key Findings
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Author(s) The DHS Program
Date 2019-03-01
Country Jordan
Language English
Download https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/SR256/SR256.pdf
Fast Facts from The 2017-18 Jordan DHS
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Author(s) The DHS Program
Date 2019-03-01
Country Jordan
Language English
Download https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/SR256/SR256.pdf
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