The DHS Program

Mandy Lombo and Cayley Clifford
AFRICA CHECK (Johannesburg, South Africa)

"...World Vision told Africa Check it used two statistics to calculate the figure. The first was on pregnancies in women aged 15 to 19 from the 2015/16 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey. It showed that 10% of these were among young women with some level of secondary education or higher. This figure was used as a 'regional proxy' to represent the situation across sub-Saharan Africa..."

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Mandy Lombo and Cayley Clifford
AFRICA CHECK (Johannesburg, South Africa)

"...World Vision told Africa Check it used two statistics to calculate the figure. The first was on pregnancies in women aged 15 to 19 from the 2015/16 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey. It showed that 10% of these were among young women with some level of secondary education or higher. This figure was used as a 'regional proxy' to represent the situation across sub-Saharan Africa..."