CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal history

Full name: ROSALIA SAM KATAPA
Sex: Female
Nationality: Tanzanian

Academic qualifications

PhD (1984) in Statistics from The University of Toronto, Canada.

Current employment

Associate Professor and Head of Department of Statistics, University of Dar-es-Salaam.

National Assignment

July - Sept 2002: Attached to the Central Census Office. I, with two colleagues trained census supervisors in Mbeya region and were overall supervisors in the region.

Publications in the past 10 years

2004 Desired family size and sex preference among Tanzanian couples. To appear in "The Tanzanian Journal of Population Studies and Development".
2004 A comparison of female and male headed households in Tanzania and poverty implications. To appear in "The Journal of Biosocial Science".
2003 Caretakers of AIDS patients in rural Tanzania. The International journal of STDs and AIDS". 2004; 15: 673-678.
2003 The correlates of Teenage motherhood in Tanzania. "Tanzanian Journal of Population Studies and Development". Vol 10, Nos. 1&2, pp 29-42.
Caretakers of non-hospitalized AIDS patients in Tanzania: Issues and challenges. Shundi, F (Co-author). Chapter in "Gender and HIV/AIDS in Africa; pp 190-305. AAWORD book series.
2002 Gender Statistics in the United Republic of Tanzania. Chapter in " United Nations Confererence on Trade and Development United Nations Development Programme. LDCs: Building Capacities for Mainstreaming Gender in Development Strategies; pp 249-257. United Nations. New York and Geneva, 2002.
2002 Women and Men in the Labour Force. Integrated Labour Force Survey 2000/01 - Analytical Report: Chapter 11; pp 129-146. National Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania and Ministry of Labour, Youth Development and Sports. Dar es Salaam. November 2002.
2001 Time use by unemployed female heads of households in urban Tanzania. Utafiti new series. Special issue, Vol. 4, 1998-2001; pp 71-87.
2001 Debt in Tanzania: Are women silent or concerned? Ngaiza, M (Co-author).
Chapter in "Visions of gender theories and social development in Africa: Harnessing knowledge for social justice and equality"; pp 47-72. AAWORD book series.
2000 Gender patterns in employment in the informal sector: Analysis of national informal sector survey of 19991 and Dar es Salaam informal sector survey of 1995. Chapter 2 in "Gender patterns in micro and small enterprises of Tanzania"; pp 23-41. M. Mbilinyi (ed). Ministry of Community Development, Women Affairs and Children, Tanzania and Women's Research and Documentation Project.
2000 Teenage reproductive health needs in Tanzania: Evidence from Demographic and
Health Surveys. In "Women's Worlds 99: The 7^th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women. Tromso, Norway, 20-26 June 1999. PROCEEDINGS". http://www.skk.uit.no/WW99/proceedings/proceedings.html and
http://www.skk.uit.no/WW99 /Katapa_Rosalia_S.pdf
Tests of hypotheses. Book published by "The Open University of Tanzania, Faculty of Arts and Social Science ". Dar es Salaam. Tanzania.
1999 Gender differences in school performance: Evidence from the National form IV examination results and implications for poverty. Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review.Volume XV. No 1; pp 19-32. (Co-author I.N. Swilla).
Nyakyusa teenage sexuality -Past and present. Chapter in "Haraka Haraka ...look before you leap: Youth at the crossroad of custom and modernity". Edited by M.K. Rwebangira and R. Liljestrom. The Nordic African Institute. Uppsala, Sweden.
1998 Teenage mothers in their second pregnancies. Chapter in "Haraka Haraka ...look before you leap: Youth at thecrossroad of custom and modernity" pp 122-143. Edited by M.K. Rwebangira and R. Liljestrom. The Nordic African Institute. Uppsala, Sweden.
Theory of estimation. Book published by "The Open University of Tanzania, faculty of science, technology and environmental studies". Dar es Salaam. Tanzania.

Research reports in the past 10 years

2003 School variables associated with good performance in national 'O' level examinations in Tanzania. Research report submitted to FASS, The University of Dar es Salaam.
2003 Caretakers of non-hospitalized AIDS patients in Tanzania: Issues and Challenges. Research report submitted to The Association of African Women for Research and Development (AAWORD), Dakar.
1999 Socialization of Nyakyusa youths towards gender identity. Research report submitted to SAREC.
1998 Gender patterns in employment in the informal sector: Analysis of the National Informal Sector Survey of 1991 and the Dar es Salaam Informal Sector Survey of 1995.
1998 Quality of education and girls' performance in private secondary schools in Tanzania. Research report submitted to UNFPA (co-researcher I.N. Swilla).
1998 The Nyakyusa teenage sexuality: Past and present. Research report submitted to SAREC.
1995 Pregnant again! Teenage mothers in second pregnancies. Research report submitted to SAREC

Ongoing Research

Departmental research on "Time use by Gender in Tanzania". Funded by NUFU, Norway.

Membership in associations

TASTA: Tanzania Statistical Association.
WRDP: Womens Research and Documentation Project Association.
AAWORD: Association of African Women for Research and Development: Tanzania chapter.
OSSREA: Organization for Social Sciences Research in Eastern Africa.

Contact Address

Department of Statistics, University of Dar es Salaam.
P.O. Box 35047, DAR ES SALAAM. TANZANIA.
Tel 2410740 or 2410500/8 ext 2044 or ext 2213 (Office); Tel 0744- 329063 (mobile)
Fax 2410393; e-mail rskatapa@udsm.ac.tz or e-mail rskatapa@yahoo.com