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Standardizing Measurement of Contraceptive Use Among Unmarried Women.
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- Community-level variations in contraceptive use among women in union and those not in union: a comparative study of 35 sub-Saharan African countries.Contraception and reproductive medicine · 2026Article
- Uptake and correlates of modern contraceptive use among women aged 15-49 years in Botswana; evidence from the Botswana demographic survey 2017.Contraception and reproductive medicine · 2025Article
- The effect of interviewer-respondent age difference on the reporting of sexual activity in the Demographic and Health Surveys: Analysis of data from 21 countries.Journal of global health · 2023Article
- Let's Talk About Sex: Improving Measurement of Contraceptive Use in Cross-Sectional Surveys by Accounting for Sexual Activity Recency.Global health, science and practice · 2022Article
- Language and Measurement of Contraceptive Need and Making These Indicators More Meaningful for Measuring Fertility Intentions of Women and Girls.Global health, science and practice · 2022Article
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- Contraceptive Use, Access to Methods, and Program Efforts in Urban Areas.Frontiers in global women's health · 2021Article
- Individual- and country-level correlates of female permanent contraception use in sub-Saharan Africa.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
Historically, the family planning practices and needs of married women have been monitored and reported uniformly. However, the same uniformity does not hold for unmarried women. Because key data and information platforms employ different measurement approaches-namely, different definitions of sexual recency-reports of contraceptive prevalence and unmet need among unmarried women are inconsistent. We examine how the measurement approaches employed by 3 large organizations yield such divergent estimates. We find that contraceptive prevalence and unmet need estimates among married women do not vary much by sexual recency. For unmarried women, contraceptive prevalence is systematically lower and unmet need is systematically higher as the sexual recency window widens. In the short term, we recommend using the 1-month cutoff as analyses reveal it yields the most precise estimates for better recognizing the needs of this important demographic group.
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