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Table 1 Description of Surveys and sample size characteristics in high fertility countries in SSA (n = 303,979)

From: Short birth interval and its predictors among reproductive age women in high fertility countries in sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel analysis of recent Demographic and Health Surveys

Countries

Survey year

Weighted sample(n)

Weighted percentage (%)

Angola

2015–16

4991

1.64

Burkina Faso

2010

39,053

12.85

Burundi

2016–17

23,563

7.75

Chad

2014–15

44,311

14.58

DR Congo

2013–14

28,559

9.40

Gambia

2013

19,209

6.32

Mali

2018

25,279

8.32

Nigeria

2012

84,226

27.71

Niger

2012

34,790

11.44