Unwanted Family Planning
Prevalence Estimates for 56 Countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10797601 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Canning (0000-0003-4041-1229, Department of Global Health and Population Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Boston MA 02115 USA), Mahesh Karra (0000-0003-0962-092X, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies Boston University Boston MA 02215 USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 75-93 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Family Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-3665 • E-ISSN: 1728-4465 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/sifp.12230 |
| PMID | 36705943 |
| OpenAlex | W4318263557 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 33 |
While there is a large literature on the prevalence of unmet need for family planning, there is no matching quantitative evidence on the prevalence of unwanted family planning; all contraceptive use is assumed to represent a “met need.” This lack of evidence raises concerns that some observed contraceptive use may be undesired and coercive. We provide estimates of unwanted family planning using Demographic and Health Survey data collected from 1,546,987 women in 56 low‐ and middle‐income countries between 2011 and 2019. We estimate the prevalence of unwanted family planning, defined as the proportion of women who report wanting a child in the next nine months but who are using contraception. We find that 12.2 percent of women have an unmet need for family planning, while 2.1 percent have unwanted family planning, with estimated prevalence rates ranging from 0.4 percent in Gambia to 7.1 percent in Jordan. About half of unwanted family planning use can be attributed to condoms, withdrawal, and abstinence. Estimating the prevalence of unwanted family planning is difficult given current data collection efforts, which are not designed for this purpose. We recommend that future surveys probe the reasons for the use of family planning
Abstinence · Developed country · Developing country · Economic growth · Environmental health · Family planning · Population · Psychiatry · Research methodology · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Reproductive Health and Contraception
Contraceptive Concordance
Assessing Trends in the Desire to Avoid Pregnancy
Unwanted Family Planning Including Unwanted Sterilization
Undesired Births, Contraception, and Abortion Before and After the Cairo Consensus
Un]met Need and [Un]wanted Family Planning
Introduction to the Special Issue
Revisiting Women's Empowerment and Contraception
Accelerate progress—sexual and reproductive health and rights for all
The Millennium Development Goals Report 2011
A Response to Critics of Family Planning Programs
Achieving the Goal of the London Summit on Family Planning By Adhering to Voluntary, Rights-Based Family Planning
The Fine Line Between Informing and Coercing
Targets and technologies
Provider Bias in Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc) Promotion and Removal
The estimation of Unwanted Fertility
Contraceptive Autonomy
Setting Standards of Quality in Family Planning Programs
Unmet Need for Contraception
Voluntary, Human Rights–Based Family Planning
Measurement of Unmet Need for Contraception
The Dilemma of Past Success
Understanding Unmet Need
Couples' Unmet Need for Family Planning in Three West African Countries
Development and Validation of a Reproductive Autonomy Scale
Understanding the Complexity of Ambivalence Toward Pregnancy
I was obligated to accept
Population Control in the Troubled Present
Conceptualizing Childbearing Ambivalence
| Citations per year | 2.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |