Table 6.

Total Fertility Rate (TFR) and under-5 survival probabilities by residence type, DHS surveys 1998–2011

Location	Fertility			Child mortality
	TFR	SE	n women	Under-5 mortality	n children
Overall	5.58	0.024	75,612	0.166	237,874
Urban/Rural (DHS designation)
Urban	4.09	0.034	27,919	0.113	66,236
Rural	6.47	0.032	47,693	0.186	171,638
City Class 1–4 urban categories
Class 1 (> 1 million)	3.44	0.059	7,625	0.096	15,408
Class 2 (150,000 – 1 million)	4.07	0.081	4,987	0.097	10,504
Class 3 (50,000 – 150,000)	4.58	0.087	4,926	0.131	12,604
Class 4 (< 50,000)	4.80	0.060	10,381	0.127	27,720
City Class urban categories with “satellite” cities segmented
Class 1 (> 1 million)	3.44	0.059	7,625	0.096	15,408
Class 2 (150,000 – 1 million)	4.11	0.084	4,840	0.100	10,223
Class 3 (50,000 – 150,000)	4.83	0.091	4,613	0.137	12,032
Class 4 (< 50,000)	4.80	0.060	10,381	0.127	27,720
Class 5 (“satellite cities”)	3.26	0.246	460	0.058	853
Re-categorized rural clusters
Peri-urban (Class 1, 2 & 3)	4.27	0.229	998	0.133	2,422
Peri-urban (Class 4)	5.80	0.417	421	0.206	1,445
Peri-urban (imputed circles)	7.45	0.389	582	0.254	1,841

NOTES: Results were calculated for the pooled sample by residential type and were weighted at the country level to account for the multistage sampling design and by country population at the regional level.

SOURCE: DHS data; author’s calculations.