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Percentage of Currently Married Women with Unmet Need for Family Planning by Background Characteristics, Year and Unmet need for Family Planning

Table ID: 3E3D5110

Indicator Unmet need for family planning, total, percentage
Unmet need for family planning, spacing, percentage
Unmet need for family planning, limiting, percentage
Definition The number of fecund women who are married or in consensual unions, and who either do not want any more children or want to delay the next child, but are not using any method of family planning expressed as a percentage of all women who are married or in a consensual union

"The number of fecund women who are married or in consensual unions, and who either do not want any more children or want to delay the next child, but are not using any method of family planning expressed as a percentage of all women who are married or in a consensual union

For spacing—Number of women who are not using a method of contraception, and
a) are fecund and say they want to wait two or more years for their next birth, or
b) are fecund and are unsure whether they want another child, or
c) are fecund, want another child, but are unsure when to have the birth, and say that a pregnancy in the next few weeks would be a problem, or
d) are pregnant not due to a contraceptive failure and who say that the pregnancy was mistimed (would have wanted to wait), or
e) are postpartum amenorrheic within six months of the birth and say that the birth was mistimed (would have wanted to wait)."
"The number of fecund women who are married or in consensual unions, and who either do not want any more children or want to delay the next child, but are not using any method of family planning expressed as a percentage of all women who are married or in a consensual union

For limiting—Number of women who are not using a method of contraception, and
a) are fecund and say they do not want any more children, or
b) are pregnant not due to a contraceptive failure and say that they did not want to become pregnant, or
c) are postpartum amenorrheic within six months of the birth and say that they did not want the birth."
Method of Computation The number of fecund women who are married or in consensual unions, and who either do not want any more children or want to delay the next child, but are not using any method of family planning expressed as a percentage of all women who are married or in a consensual union
"Numerator:
For spacing—Number of women who are not using a method of contraception, and
a) are fecund and say they want to wait two or more years for their next birth, or
b) are fecund and are unsure whether they want another child, or
c) are fecund, want another child, but are unsure when to have the birth, and say that a
pregnancy in the next few weeks would be a problem, or
d) are pregnant not due to a contraceptive failure and who say that the pregnancy was
mistimed (would have wanted to wait), or
e) are postpartum amenorrheic within six months of the birth and say that the birth was
mistimed (would have wanted to wait).

Denominator: Number of currently married women."
"Numerator:
For limiting—Number of women who are not using a method of contraception, and
a) are fecund and say they do not want any more children, or
b) are pregnant not due to a contraceptive failure and say that they did not want to become pregnant, or
c) are postpartum amenorrheic within six months of the birth and say that they did not want the birth.
Denominator: Number of currently married women."
Source of Basic Data National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS)
Source Document/Agency Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)
Frequency of Release Every 5 years
Latest Available 2013
Level of Disaggregation
Regional
by Age
by Marital Status
by Urban-rural area
by Educational Attainment
by Wealth Quintile"
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