CONTENTS

         Chapters
  1. Unmet Need and Family Planning Programs
  2. Reasons for Unmet Need
  3. Who Has Unmet Need?
  4. Program Implications
  5. A Process to Address Unmet Need
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Volume XXIV, Number 1
September, 1996
 Who Has Unmet Need?

Levels of unmet need vary substantially according to women's demographic and social characteristics such as their age and education. Also, there are important differences among women with unmet need—for example, whether their interest is in limiting or spacing births, and whether or not they intend to use contraception. Knowing which women are likely to have unmet need and the characteristics of these women can help family planning programs design unmet need strategies (see Chapter 5).

The major source of comparable information on unmet need by women's characteristics is the DHS. More detailed information from the DHS is available in Unmet Need: 1990-1994 by Westoff and Bankole, for 27 countries surveyed between 1990 and 1994 (237), and in Unmet Need and the Demand for Family Planning, by Westoff and Ochoa, for 25 countries surveyed between 1985 and 1990 (238).


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