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Malaria Indicator Survey 2017

Tanzania, 2017
MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Office of the Chief Government Statistician (OCGS)
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Download the questionnaires, technical documents and reports that describe the survey process and the key results for this study.
Questionnaires
Tanzania Malaria Indicator Survey 2017, Household Questionnaire
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authors National Bureau of Statistics
Date 2016-01-29
Country Tanzania
language English
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Tanzania Malaria Indicator Survey 2017, Model Woman's Questionnaire
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authors National Bureau of Statistics
Date 2016-03-14
Country Tanzania
language English
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Tanzania Malaria Indicator Survey 2017, Model Biomarker Questionnaire
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authors National Bureau of Statistics
Date 2014-10-23
Country Tanzania
language English
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Reports
Tanzania Malaria Indicator Survey 2017, Report
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authors Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Dar es Salaam Ministry of Health, Zanzibar National Bureau of Statistics, Dar es Salaam Office of Chief Government Statistician, Zanzibar ICF, Rockville, Maryland USA
Date 2018-08-01
Country Tanzania
language English
Table of contents TABLES AND FIGURES ............................................................................................................................v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................................................ ix
FOREWORD....................................................................................................................................................... xi
READING AND UNDERSTANDING THE 2017 TANZANIA MALARIA INDICATOR SURVEY (TMIS) ....... xiii
MAP OF TANZANIA ......................................................................................................................................xxii

1 INTRODUCTION AND SURVEY METHODOLOGY ..................................................................... 1
1.1 Survey Objectives ...................................................................................................................... 1
1.2 Sample Design ........................................................................................................................... 1
1.3 Questionnaires ............................................................................................................................ 2
1.4 Anaemia and Malaria Testing .................................................................................................... 3
1.5 Training of Field Staff ................................................................................................................ 4
1.6 Fieldwork ................................................................................................................................... 5
1.7 Data Processing .......................................................................................................................... 5
1.8 Ethical Consideration ................................................................................................................. 5
1.9 Response Rates .......................................................................................................................... 5

2 CHARACTERISTICS OF HOUSEHOLDS AND WOMEN............................................................. 7
2.1 Drinking Water Sources and Treatment ..................................................................................... 8
2.2 Sanitation ................................................................................................................................... 9
2.3 Housing Characteristics ............................................................................................................. 9
2.4 Dwelling Characteristics .......................................................................................................... 10
2.5 Household Durable Goods ....................................................................................................... 10
2.6 Household Wealth .................................................................................................................... 11
2.7 Household Population and Composition .................................................................................. 12
2.8 Background Characteristics of Women Respondents .............................................................. 13
2.9 Educational Attainment of Women .......................................................................................... 13
2.10 Literacy of Women .................................................................................................................. 14

3 MALARIA PREVENTION................................................................................................................. 27
3.1 Ownership of Insecticide-Treated Nets .................................................................................... 28
3.2 Household Access to and Use of Insecticide-Treated Nets ...................................................... 31
3.3 Use of Insecticide-Treated Nets by Children and Pregnant Women ........................................ 33
3.4 Malaria in Pregnancy ............................................................................................................... 34

4 MALARIA IN CHILDREN ................................................................................................................ 53
4.1 Care Seeking for Fever in Children.......................................................................................... 53
4.2 Diagnostic Testing of Children with Fever .............................................................................. 54
4.3 Use of Recommended Antimalarials........................................................................................ 55
4.4 Prevalence of Low Haemoglobin in Children .......................................................................... 56
4.5 Prevalence of Malaria in Children ........................................................................................... 57

5 MALARIA KNOWLEDGE AND MESSAGING.............................................................................. 71
5.1 Most Serious Health Problem in Community .......................................................................... 71
5.2 Knowledge of Malaria Signs or Symptoms ............................................................................. 72
5.3 Knowledge of Ways to Avoid Malaria .................................................................................... 73
5.4 Access to Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT), Messages about Malaria Prevention and Treatment, and Visits from Health Workers .... 74
5.5 Media Exposure to Malaria Messages ..................................................................................... 75
5.6 Attitude towards Malaria and Malaria Treatment .................................................................... 76

REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................................... 87
APPENDIX A SAMPLE DESIGN FOR THE 2017 TANZANIA MALARIA INDICATOR SURVEY .... 89
A.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 89
A.2 Sampling Frame ....................................................................................................................... 89
A.3 Structure of the Sample and Sampling Procedure .................................................................... 91
A.4 Selection Probability and Sampling Weights ........................................................................... 93
A.5 Survey Implementation Results ............................................................................................... 95

APPENDIX B ESTIMATES OF SAMPLING ERRORS .............................................................................. 99
APPENDIX C DATA QUALITY TABLES .................................................................................................. 119
APPENDIX D PERSONS INVOLVED IN THE 2017 TANZANIA MALARIA INDICATOR SURVEY ....... 123
APPENDIX E QUESTIONNAIRES.............................................................................................................. 127
Household Questionnaire ..................................................................................................................... 129
Biomarker Questionnaire ..................................................................................................................... 143
Woman's Questionnaire ........................................................................................................................ 155
Download https://www.dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/MIS31/MIS31.pdf
Tanzania 2017 Malaria Indicator Survey, Wall Chart
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authors The DHS Program
Date 2018-08-01
Country Tanzania
language English
Download https://www.dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/DM139/DM139.pdf
Malaria Atlas, Malaria Indicator Survey 2017 (in English)
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authors Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Dar es Salaam Ministry of Health, Zanzibar National Bureau of Statistics, Dar es Salaam Office of Chief Government Statistician, Zanzibar ICF, Rockville, Maryland USA
Date 2018-08-01
Country Tanzania
language English
Download https://www.dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/ATR20/ATR20.pdf
Atlasi ya Malaria, Utafiti wa Viashiria vya Malaria 2017
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authors Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Dar es Salaam Ministry of Health, Zanzibar National Bureau of Statistics, Dar es Salaam Office of Chief Government Statistician, Zanzibar ICF, Rockville, Maryland USA
Date 2018-08-01
Country Tanzania
language Swahili
Download https://www.dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/ATR20/ATR20.S.pdf
2017 Tanzania Malaria Indicator Survey (TMIS), Malaria Fact Sheet
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authors The DHS Program
Date 2018-08-01
Country Tanzania
language English
Download https://www.dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/MF25/MF25.pdf
Utafiti wa Viashiria vya Malaria Tanzania (TMIS) 2017, Kipeperushi cha Malaria
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authors The DHS Program
Date 2018-08-01
Country Tanzania
language Swahili
Download https://www.dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/MF25/MF25.S.pdf
Survey Presentation
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authors The DHS Program
Date 2018-08-01
Country Tanzania
language English
Download https://www.dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/PPT67/PPT67.zip
Other materials
Standard Recode Manual for DHS-7
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authors The DHS Program
language English
Download https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/DHSG4/Recode7_DHS_31Aug2018_DHSG4.pdf