Evaluating unmet need for contraception : estimates for thirty-six developing countries
Boulier, B.
Married women wanting no more children, who are exposed to the risk of pregnancy and are not using contraception, are defined as having unmet need for contraception for limiting purposes. Married women seeking to delay unwanted pregnancies, who are exposed to the risk of pregnancy, but are not using contraception, have unmet need for contraception for spacing purposes. This paper reviews procedures for calculating unmet need and assesses measurement errors, and their consequences, for estimating the number of women who would benefit from increased availability of modern contraceptive methods and for estimating the potential demand for such methods. High and low estimates of unmet need for contraception for purposes of limiting family size are presented for rural and urban areas of thirty-six developing countries and estimates of unmet need for spacing purposes for nine countries. Low estimates assume that women who want no more children or want to delay births for more than one year and have been breastfeeding for less than one year or are using traditional methods of contraception such as withdrawal or rhythm do not have unmet need. High estimates count these women as having unmet need.
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