Armenia 2000. - BVSDE

INDICATOR DEFINITIONSPart I: HNP STATUSA. CHILDHOOD MORTALITY AND ILLNESS 2Infant mortality rate: number of deaths to children under 12 months of age per 1,000 live births,based on experience during the ten years preceding the survey.Under-five mortality rate: number of deaths to children under five years of age per 1,000 livebirths, based on experience during the ten years preceding the survey.Prevalence of fever: percent of children who had fever, whether or not accompanied by cough orrapid breathing, in the two weeks before the survey.Prevalence of diarrhea: percent of children who had diarrhea in the two weeks before thesurvey.Prevalence of acute respiratory infection: percent of children who had a cough accompanied byrapid or difficult breathing in the two weeks before the survey.B. FERTILITYTotal fertility rate (TFR): average number of births a woman could expect to have during herlifetime if she followed the levels of fertility currently observed at every age. The TFR iscalculated as the sum of average annual age-specific fertility rates for all reproductive age groups(usually 15-49 years) in the three years before the survey.Adolescent fertility rate: age-specific fertility rate for women 15-19 years of age. This is theaverage number of births among women aged 15-19 years per 1,000 women in that age group,based on births in the three years before the survey and expressed as annual averages.2 Figures for the prevalence of fever, diarrhea, and acute respiratory infection refer to percent of children under three,four, or five years of age, depending upon the country. (The specific ages covered for in particular country may bedetermined by consulting the full report on that country’s DHS, which may be found at:www.measuredhs.com/countries.)- 21 -