RESUMO
PIP: The Peru Demographic and Health Survey, conducted in 1986-87, collected data from 4666 households and included complete interviews with 4999 women 15-49 years of age. The survey was national in scope, covering 93% of the population. This article presents summary statistics from the survey. The 26 tables and figures that comprise this article cover the following topics: general characteristics of the population; distribution of survey sample population by socioeconomic characteristics; fertility trends; fertility differentials, 1983-85; age-specific fertility; ideal number of children by age and number of living children for currently married women; desire to stop childbearing among currently married women; planning status of births in last 12 months, by birth order; contraceptive prevalence differentials; contraceptive prevalence by age and parity; source of current method or information about method; knowledge and use of methods among currently married women; nonuse among exposed currently married women by desire for more children; reasons for nonuse among exposed nonusers; current marital status; differentials in age at 1st union; exposure status of currently married women; duration of postpartum interval by current status; differentials in breastfeeding and amenorrhea; postpartum status by duration since birth; infant mortality trends; infant mortality differentials, 1981-86; children ever born and surviving; percent of children under 5 years of age with health card, and percent immunized; prevalence and treatment of diarrhea among children under 5 years of age; and type of assistance during delivery for births in 5 years prior to survey. The ideal number of children averaged 2.8 among survey respondents. 46% of respondents were current users of a contraceptive method.^ieng