Prospects for Fertility Decline in Africa
In: Population and development review, Band 43, Heft S1, S. 3-18
ISSN: 1728-4457
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In: Population and development review, Band 43, Heft S1, S. 3-18
ISSN: 1728-4457
In: Population and development review, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 395-397
ISSN: 1728-4457
In: Journal of biosocial science: JBS, Band 25, Heft 3, S. 416-416
ISSN: 1469-7599
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 96, Heft 3, S. 772-773
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Studies in family planning: a publication of the Population Council, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 81
ISSN: 1728-4465
In: Population and development review, Band 44, Heft 4, S. 793-809
ISSN: 1728-4457
In: Population and development review, Band 42, Heft 2, S. 173-194
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In: International family planning perspectives, Band 26, Heft 3, S. 100
ISSN: 1943-4154
In: Population and development review, Band 24, Heft 4, S. 773
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In: Population and development review, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 377
ISSN: 1728-4457
In: Contributions in Afro-American and African studies no. 206
In: Population and development review, Band 43, Heft S1, S. 84-111
ISSN: 1728-4457
In: Studies in family planning: a publication of the Population Council, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 123-150
ISSN: 1728-4465
During the past two decades, estimates of unmet need have become an influential measure for assessing population policies and programs. This article recounts the evolution of the concept of unmet need, describes how demographic survey data have been used to generate estimates of its prevalence, and tests the sensitivity of these estimates to various assumptions in the unmet need algorithm. The algorithm uses a complex set of assumptions to identify women: who are sexually active, who are infecund, whose most recent pregnancy was unwanted, who wish to postpone their next birth, and who are postpartum amenorrheic. The sensitivity tests suggest that defensible alternative criteria for identifying four out of five of these subgroups of women would increase the estimated prevalence of unmet need. The exception is identification of married women who are sexually active; more accurate measurement of this subgroup would reduce the estimated prevalence of unmet need in most settings.
In: Population and development review, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 691-723
ISSN: 1728-4457
Unmet need for family planning has been a core concept in international population discourse for several decades. This article reviews the history of unmet need and the development of increasingly refined methods of its empirical measurement and delineates the main questions that have been raised about unmet need during the past decade, some of which concern the validity of the concept and others its role in policy debates. The discussion draws heavily on empirical research conducted during the 1990s, much of it localized, in‐depth studies combining quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Of the causes of unmet need other than those related to access to services, three emerge as especially salient: lack of necessary knowledge about contraceptive methods, social opposition to their use, and health concerns about possible side effects. The article argues that the concept of unmet need for family planning, by joining together contraceptive behavior and fertility preferences, encourages an integration of family planning programs and broader development approaches to population policy. By focusing on the fulfillment of individual aspirations, unmet need remains a defensible rationale for the formulation of population policy and a sensible guide to the design of family planning programs.