Decision Making about Family Planning

Percent distribution of currently married women by who makes the decision to use or not use family planning, and percentage who participate in decision making about family planning

Definition

1)      Percent distribution of currently married women by who makes the decision to use family planning.

2)      Percentage of currently married women who participate in decision making about family planning.

Coverage:

Population base: Currently married women (IR file)

Time period: Current status at time of survey

Numerator:

1)      Number of currently married women age 15-49 according to who makes the decision to use or not family planning (v632)

2)      Number of currently married women age 15-49 who participate in the decision to use or not use family planning (v632 = 1 or v632 = 3)

Denominator: Number of currently married women who are not pregnant (v502 = 1 & v213 = 0)

Variables: IR file.

Calculation

Numerator divided by the denominator, multiplied by 100.

Handling of Missing Values

Women with missing values are included in the someone else/other response category.

Changes over Time

In prior DHS surveys, pregnant women were not asked these questions and were therefore excluded from the tabulation. In DHS-8, all women are asked these questions, and all are included in the tabulation.

In DHS-8 decision making for using or not using family planning is reported as one indicator. In DHS-7, this was two indicators – by who was the decisionmaker among currently married women who were using family planning and among currently married women who were not using family planning. Prior to DHS-7, there was only one indicator for decisionmaker among currently married women who were using family planning.

Resources

DHS-8 Tabulation plan: Table 7.16 and 7.17

API Indicator IDs:

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