CONTENTS
Chapters
- Thirty Years of Family Planning Programs
- Family Planning Demand
- Contraceptive Access
- Choice of Contraceptive Methods
- Client-Centered Quality
- Communication
- Well-Trained Providers
- Program Leadership and Strategic Management
- Research and Evaluation
- Political Commitment
- Financial Resources
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Volume XXII, Number 2
August, 1994 |
Comparative National Surveys
Much of what we know about fertility levels and trends,
contraceptive use, and reproductive attitudes and intentions in
the developing world comes from four comparative national survey
programs, initiated and supported chiefly by USAID, that have
been conducted in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. These are the
World Fertility Survey (WFS), the Contraceptive Prevalence
Surveys (CPS), the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), and the
Family Planning Surveys (FPS). In the past 10 years the DHS and
FPS have interviewed more than 300,000 women of reproductive age,
constituting nationally representative samples, in over 50
countries. Recent surveys also have interviewed men.
These surveys have provided data on contraceptive use,
reproductive attitudes, demand for family planning, child health,
AIDS, and related topics (115). The findings have helped many
programs to understand people's reproductive desires, and to
estimate demand for family planning, and to identify groups
especially in need of services.
Surveys have shown that in most countries contraceptive use
has been rising but that large potential demand for contraception
remains. (See Population Reports,
The Reproductive Revolution: New Survey Findings, M-11, December 1992.) |
