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Questionnaire for Individual Women:

Unmet Needand Desire for Last Birth

MICS Indicators

# 5.4 – Unmet NeedProportion of women age 15-49 years who are

currently married or in union who are fecund and want to space their births or limit the number of children they have and who are not currently using contraception

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Background

MDG5, Target B indicator (MDG # 5.6)

Studies indicate that unwanted pregnancies pose greater risk

How to define unmet need?

• Women with an unmet need for family planning are women who – are married or in union– are fecund – not using any method of contraception – report not wanting any more children or wanting

to delay the birth of their next child for at least two years

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We also consider the following to have unmet need:

• Women* who are pregnant, but whose current pregnancy unwanted or mistimed

• Postpartum amenorrheic women* (not using contraception) whose last birth was unwanted or mistimed

*Married/in union

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How to define unmet need?

Key indicator elements

• Marital status• Current use of contraception (any method)• Fecundity• Pregnant or amenorrheic• Desire for last birth• Desire for future births

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Questionnaire requirements

Three modules:• Contraception• Desire for last birth• Unmet need

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Other questionsCurrently pregnant

(CP1) Return of period

(MN23)Marital status (MA1)

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Indicators

1. Total unmet need

2. Unmet need for spacing (want to wait for two or more years)

3. Unmet need for limiting (want to stop childbearing altogether)

These indicators provide programmatically useful information

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Prepared by:

Holly NewbyStatistics and Monitoring Section

UNICEF/New York1-212-303-7932

hnewby@unicef.org