Percentage of currently married or in union women and men who declare that they want no more children.
Coverage:
Population base: Currently married women, or currently married men (IR file, MR file)
Time period: Current status at time of survey
Numerator:
Number of currently married or in union women or men (women: v502 = 1; men: mv502 = 1) who state that they want no more children (women: v605 = 5; men: mv605 = 5) or
· women: who are sterilized or whose partner is sterilized (women: v605 = 6)
· men: who are sterilized or who state in response to the question about desire for children that their wife has been sterilized (mv605 = 6)
Denominator: All currently married or in union women or men (women: v502 = 1; men: mv502 = 1)
Variables: IR file, MR file.
|
v605 |
Desire for more children (women) |
|
v502 |
Currently/formerly/never in union (women) |
|
v005 |
Woman’s individual sample weight |
|
mv605 |
Desire for more children (men) |
|
mv502 |
Currently/formerly/never in union (men) |
|
mv005 |
Man’s individual sample weight |
Numerators are divided by the denominator and multiplied by 100.
Missing information on whether a woman or man wants no more children is excluded from the numerator but included in the denominator.
Desire to limit childbearing is typically presented by number of living children as desire for children typically decreases with increasing numbers of children. The number of living children presented in DHS tables also includes any current pregnancy in the count of living children. Women who have been sterilized or whose husband has been sterilized are considered to want no more children.
Men are not asked about their current use of contraception. Men are asked if they or their partner used anything to avoid or prevent a pregnancy the last time they had sex. Only if something was used to avoid pregnancy, the method was recorded. If men or their partner were sterilized at the last time they had sex, it assumed here that they have no desire for more children. It is possible that some men or their partners have been sterilized since the last time they had sex, but those men are still asked about their desire for children.
DHS-8 Tabulation plan: Tables 6.2.1 and 6.2.2
API Indicator IDs:
Women:
PR_DESL_W_WNM
Men:
PR_DESL_M_WNM