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Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys Survey Design Workshop. Questionnaire for Individual Women: Unmet Need and Desire for Last Birth. MICS Indicators. # 5.4 – Unmet Need
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Multiple Indicator Cluster SurveysSurvey Design Workshop Questionnaire for Individual Women: Unmet Need and Desire for Last Birth MICS4 Survey Design Workshop
MICS Indicators # 5.4 – Unmet Need Proportion 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 MICS4 Survey Design Workshop
Background MDG5, Target B indicator (MDG # 5.6) Studies indicate that unwanted pregnancies pose greater risk MICS4 Survey Design Workshop
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 MICS4 Survey Design Workshop
How to define unmet need? 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 MICS4 Survey Design Workshop
Key indicator elements • Marital status • Current use of contraception (any method) • Fecundity • Pregnant or amenorrheic • Desire for last birth • Desire for future births MICS4 Survey Design Workshop
Questionnaire requirements Three modules: • Contraception • Desire for last birth • Unmet need Other questions Currently pregnant (CP1) Return of period (MN23) Marital status (MA1) MICS4 Survey Design Workshop
Indicators • Total unmet need • Unmet need for spacing (want to wait for two or more years) • Unmet need for limiting (want to stop childbearing altogether) These indicators provide programmatically useful information MICS4 Survey Design Workshop
Prepared by: Holly Newby Statistics and Monitoring Section UNICEF/New York 1-212-303-7932 hnewby@unicef.org MICS4 Survey Design Workshop