Modern Methods (Currently Carried Women (15-49): Include male and female sterilization, injectables, intrauterine devices (IUDs), contraceptive pills, implants, female and male condoms, the standard days method, the lactational amenorrhoea method, and emergency contraception.
Traditional Methods (Currently Carried Women (15-49): May include traditional or folk methods such as prolonged abstinence, breastfeeding, or herbs.
Demand for family planning (Currently Married Women 15-49): Unmet need for family planning + current contraceptive use (any method).
Unmet need for family planning (Currently Married Women 15-49): Proportion of women who;
I. are not pregnant and not postpartum amenorrhoeic and are considered fecund and want to postpone their next birth for 2 or more years or stop childbearing altogether but are not using a contraceptive method; or
II. have a mistimed or unwanted current pregnancy; or
III. are postpartum amenorrhoeic and their most recent birth in the last 2 years was mistimed or unwanted.
Unmet need for family planning (Sexually Active unmarried Women 15-49): Proportion of women who;
I. are not pregnant and not postpartum amenorrhoeic and are considered fecund and want to postpone their next birth for 2 or more years or stop childbearing altogether but are not using a contraceptive method; or
II. have a mistimed or unwanted current pregnancy; or
III. are postpartum amenorrhoeic and their most recent birth in the last 2 years was mistimed or unwanted.
