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Monitoring ICPD Goals – Selected Indicators
Indicators of Mortality Indicators of Education Reproductive Health Indicators
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of childbearing among adolescent women 15 to 19 years of age. For civil and UNFPA.
(15-49)
births
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method methods
M/F
registration, rates are subject to limitations which depend on the completeness
of birth registration, the treatment of infants born alive but
dead before registration or within the first 24 hours of life, the quality of
the reported information relating to age of the mother, and the inclusion
of births from previous periods. The population estimates may suffer
from limitations connected to age misreporting and coverage. For survey
and census data, both the numerator and denominator come from the
same population. The main limitations concern age misreporting, birth
omissions, misreporting the date of birth of the child, and sampling
variability in the case of surveys.
Under age 5 mortality, per 1,000 live births. Source: United Nations,
Education
Male and female net enrolment rate in primary education (adjusted),
male and female net enrolment rate in secondary education, 2010 or
latest year. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, data release of May
2012. Accessible through: stats.uis.unesco.org. The net enrolment rates
indicate the enrolment of the official age group for a given level of education
expressed as a percentage of the corresponding population. The
adjusted net enrolment rate in primary also includes children of official
primary school age enrolled in secondary education. Data presented are
the most recent year estimates available for the period 1999-2011.
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2011).
World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. DVD Edition - Extended
Dataset in Excel and ASCII formats (United Nations publication, ST/ESA/
SER.A/306). Under age 5 mortality is the probability (expressed as a
rate per 1,000 live births) of a child born in a specified year dying before
reaching the age of five if subject to current age-specific mortality rates.
Demographic indicators
Total population, 2012. Source: United Nations, Department of
Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2011). World Population
Prospects: The 2010 Revision. DVD Edition - Extended Dataset in Excel and
ASCII formats (United Nations publication, ST/ESA/SER.A/306) These
indicators present the estimated size of national populations at mid-year.
Sexual and reproductive health
Contraceptive prevalence. Source: United Nations, Department of
Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2012). 2012 Update for
the MDG Database: Contraceptive Prevalence (POP/DB/CP/A/MDG2012).
These data are derived from sample survey reports and estimate the
proportion of married women (including women in consensual unions)
currently using, respectively, any method or modern methods of contraception.
Modern or clinic and supply methods include male and female
sterilization, IUD, the pill, injectables, hormonal implants, condoms and
female barrier methods. These numbers are roughly but not completely
comparable across countries due to variation in the timing of the surveys
and in the details of the questions. All country and regional data refer
to women aged 15-49. The most recent survey data available are cited,
ranging from 1990-2011.
Unmet need for family planning. Source: United Nations, Department
of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2012). 2012
Update for the MDG Database: Unmet Need for Family Planning (POP/
DB/CP/B/MDG2012). Women with unmet need for spacing births are
those who are fecund and sexually active but are not using any method
of contraception, and report wanting to delay the next child. This is
a subcategory of total unmet need for family planning, which also
includes unmet need for limiting births. The concept of unmet need
points to the gap between women's reproductive intentions and their
contraceptive behavior. For MDG monitoring, unmet need is expressed
as a percentage based on women who are married or in a consensual
Average annual rate of population change (%) Source: United
Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division
(2011). World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. DVD Edition -
Extended Dataset in Excel and ASCII formats (United Nations publication,
ST/ESA/SER.A/306). Average annual rate of population change is the
average exponential rate of growth of the population over a given period.
It is based on a medium variant projection.
Male and female life expectancy at birth. Source: United Nations,
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2011). World
Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. DVD Edition - Extended Dataset in
Excel and ASCII formats (United Nations publication, ST/ESA/SER.A/306).
These indicators are measures of mortality levels, respectively, and
represent the average number of years of life expected by a hypothetical
cohort of individuals who would be subject during all their lives to the
mortality rates of a given period. Data are for the period 2010-2015 and
are expressed as years.
Total fertility rate. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic
and Social Affairs, Population Division (2011). World Population
Prospects: The 2010 Revision. DVD Edition - Extended Dataset in Excel and
ASCII formats (United Nations publication, ST/ESA/SER.A/306). The
measure indicates the number of children a woman would have during
her reproductive years if she bore children at the rate estimated for different
age groups in the specified time period. Countries may reach the
projected level at different points within the period. Estimates are for
the period 2010-2015.
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