Malawi 2015-16

Table A-16.6.1 Ownership of title or deed for land: Women by district
Among women age 15-49 who own land, percent distribution by whether the land owned has a title
or deed and whether or not the woman’s name appears on the title or deed, according to district,
Malawi DHS 2015-16
House/land has a title
or deed and:
District
Woman’s
name is on
title/deed
Woman’s
name is
not on
title/deed
Does not
have a
title/deed
Don’t
know/
missing
Total
Number of
women
who own a
land 1
Northern
Chitipa 1.0 2.1 96.8 0.1 100.0 155
Karonga 2.7 0.5 95.9 0.9 100.0 289
Likoma 2.3 3.2 93.9 0.6 100.0 5
Mzimba 1.8 1.6 95.1 1.4 100.0 883
Nkhata Bay 0.8 1.8 97.3 0.1 100.0 194
Rumphi 4.4 4.5 90.2 0.9 100.0 179
Total 2.1 1.8 95.1 1.0 100.0 1,705
Central
Dedza 0.6 0.2 99.1 0.1 100.0 779
Dowa 0.9 2.9 93.3 2.9 100.0 672
Kasungu 2.2 4.6 92.6 0.6 100.0 441
Lilongwe 5.1 3.4 91.0 0.5 100.0 2,100
Mchinji 0.5 4.0 94.5 1.0 100.0 433
Nkhotakota 1.2 0.7 98.1 0.0 100.0 274
Ntcheu 1.0 0.9 98.1 0.0 100.0 651
Ntchisi 2.0 1.7 96.0 0.4 100.0 222
Salima 0.8 1.8 97.1 0.4 100.0 410
Total 2.5 2.5 94.4 0.7 100.0 5,981
Southern
Balaka 1.4 1.2 97.1 0.4 100.0 399
Blantyre 2.0 3.3 93.1 1.6 100.0 583
Chikhwawa 1.3 1.0 97.4 0.3 100.0 387
Chiradzulu 1.0 0.2 98.8 0.0 100.0 337
Machinga 3.6 1.4 94.8 0.2 100.0 576
Mangochi 0.7 0.7 98.2 0.4 100.0 941
Mulanje 0.8 0.5 98.4 0.3 100.0 728
Mwanza 1.2 0.3 98.3 0.2 100.0 99
Neno 0.9 0.8 98.1 0.2 100.0 172
Nsanje 0.6 0.4 98.6 0.4 100.0 213
Phalombe 0.3 0.1 99.4 0.1 100.0 516
Thyolo 0.9 1.6 96.8 0.7 100.0 657
Zomba 1.0 0.6 98.4 0.0 100.0 870
Total 1.2 1.0 97.4 0.4 100.0 6,477
Total 1.8 1.7 95.8 0.6 100.0 14,163
1
Includes alone, joint, or alone and joint ownership
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