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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 6.
Published in final edited form as: Demogr Res. 2013 Jun 6;28:1167–1198. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2013.28.40
Data
source
Survey
year
Complete
sample of
children
age 7–14
Incomplete
Cases (%)
Final
sample of
children
age 7–14
Portion of
final analytic
sample (%)
Provinces
(#)
Western Africa
Benin DHS 2006 20,953 1.63 20,611 11.17 12
Burkina Faso MICS 2006 9,452 2.29 9,236 5.00 13
Cote d’Ivoire MICS 2006 12,359 1.34 12,194 6.61 11
Gambia MICS 2006 10,545 0.60 10,482 5.68 8
Ghana DHS 2008 10,099 0.40 10,059 5.45 10
Guinea DHS 2005 9,516 0.76 9,444 5.12 8
Guinea Bissau MICS 2006 8,751 4.25 8,379 4.54 9
Liberia DHS 2007 7,792 1.75 7,656 4.15 6
Mali DHS 2006 16,887 1.79 16,584 8.99 9
Niger DHS 2006 11,993 1.38 11,828 6.41 8
Nigeria DHS 2008 33,386 2.61 32,516 17.62 6
Senegal DHS 2005 15,004 2.14 14,683 7.96 11
Sierra Leone DHS 2008 10,453 1.85 10,260 5.56 4
Sao Tome Principe (STP) DHS 2008 2,985 0.27 2,977 1.61 4
Togo MICS 2006 7,750 1.52 7,632 4.14 6
Total 1.64 184,541 100 125
Eastern Africa
Ethiopia DHS 2005 16,258 0.66 16,150 25.12 11
Kenya DHS 2003 8,041 0.96 7,964 12.39 8
Rwanda DHS 2005 10,572 0.67 10,501 16.33 12
Somalia MICS 2006 7,518 8.91 6,848 10.65 18
Tanzania DHS 2010 11,363 0.89 11,262 17.51 26
Uganda DHS 2006 11,721 1.23 11,577 18.00 9
Total 2.22 64,302 100 84
Central Africa
Central African Republic (CAR) MICS 2006 10,979 2.23 10,734 26.12 16
Chad DHS 2004 6,968 0.95 6,902 16.79 9
Congo DHS 2005 6,568 2.74 6,388 15.54 4
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) DHS 2007 10,775 1.01 10,666 25.95 11
Gabon DHS 2000 6,620 3.14 6,412 15.60 5
Total 2.01 41,102 100 45
Southern Africa
Lesotho DHS 2009 8,488 2.33 8,290 8.91 10
Madagascar DHS 2009 20,597 3.22 19,934 21.42 22
Malawi DHS 2010 29,067 4.06 27,886 29.96 3
Mozambique DHS 2009 6,099 10.12 5,482 5.89 11
Namibia DHS 2007 8,640 4.27 8,271 8.89 13
Swaziland DHS 2006 5,004 1.80 4,914 5.28 4
Zambia DHS 2007 8,628 0.82 8,557 9.19 9
Zimbabwe DHS 2005 9,855 1.26 9,731 10.46 10
Total 3.49 93,065 100 82

Sources: DHS & MICS