Demographic and Health Survey 2009-10 - Timor-Leste Ministry of ...

72 | Family Planning
Table 5.9 Informed choice
Among current users of modern methods age 15-49 who started the last episode of use within the five years preceding the
survey, the percentage who were informed about possible side effects or problems of that method, the percentage who
were informed about what to do if they experienced side effects, and the percentage who were informed about other
methods that they could use, by method and source, Timor-Leste 2009-10
Method/source
Among women who started last episode of modern contraceptive method within five years
preceding the survey:
Percentage who were
informed about side
effects or problems of
method used
Percentage who were
informed about what to
do if experienced side
effects
Percentage who were
informed by a health or
family planning worker
of other methods that
could be used
Number of
women
Method
Female sterilization (78.0) (78.0) (48.8) 42
Pill 67.2 66.7 64.1 113
IUD 76.5 66.4 64.8 97
Injectables 59.2 52.5 50.7 1,123
Implants 53.2 53.8 60.7 64
Initial source of method 1
PUBLIC 59.2 55.6 53.7 1,287
National hospital 81.0 62.7 54.0 69
Referral hospital 46.7 42.2 35.9 181
Community health center 61.7 59.4 55.8 663
Health post 57.7 53.1 58.1 301
SISCa post (58.5) (61.9) (68.7) 46
Other public * * * 1
Mobile clinic * * * 27
PRIVATE MEDICAL 79.1 45.3 39.6 118
Private hospital/clinic 84.0 45.1 33.2 95
Pharmacy * * * 7
Private doctor’s office * * * 6
Mobile clinic * * * 3
Field worker * * * 1
Other private medical * * * 7
OTHER PRIVATE * * * 31
Shop * * * 1
Friend/relative * * * 7
Marie Stopes (NGO) * * * 5
Other NGO * * * 18
OTHER * * * 3
Total 61.3 55.3 53.1 1,440
Note: Table includes users of only the methods listed individually. Figures in parentheses are based on 25-49 unweighted
cases. As asterisk indicates that a figure is based on fewer than 25 unweighted cases and has been suppressed.
na = Not applicable
1 Source at start of current episode of use
5.13 FUTURE USE OF CONTRACEPTION
An important indicator of the changing demand for family planning is the extent to which
non-users of contraception plan to use family planning in the future. Currently married women who
were not using contraception at the time of the survey were asked about their intention to use family
planning in the future. The results appear in Table 5.10. Among currently married women who are not
using contraception, 20 percent report that they intend to use a family planning method in the future,
54 percent say that they do not intend to use a method in the future, and 27 percent are unsure of their
future intention. Depending on the number of living children, there are differences in the percentage
of women who intend to use family planning. The proportion of women intending to use family
planning peaks at 26 percent among non-users with one child, declines to 22 percent among women
with three children, and further declines sharply to 17 percent among women who have four or more
children. This is despite the fact that women with four or more children have a strong demand to delay
their next child or have no more children (see Table 7.1).