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36 | PMA2014 ETHIOPIA DETAILED INDICATOR REPORT
Unmet Need For Family Planning
Unmet need for family planning is defined as the percentage of fecund, sexually active women who
do not want to become pregnant but are not using contraception and are therefore exposed to
unintended pregnancies. Total unmet need is disaggregated into the percentage of women who wish
to space births and those who wish to limit births. The PMA2020 measure follows the guidance for the
revised definition adopted by the DHS.
Unmet need is a frequently used indicator of contraceptive demand and used for monitoring progress
in increasing access to contraceptive services, in addition to advocating for increased resources toward
family planning programs.
The PMA2014/Ethiopia survey found 15.9% of all women ages 15 to 49 and 24.4% of women ages
15 to 49 who are currently married or in union had an unmet contraceptive need. In the EDHS 2011,
total unmet need was 25.3% among married women. The 2014 level of need for spacing births was
greater than that for limiting, at 14.9% and 9.4%, respectively, for married women and 9.7% and 6.2%,
respectively, for all women. Unmet need was highest among women in the poorest households and
lowest for those in the highest wealth quintile, as seen in Figure F4b. Oromiya region has the highest
unmet need for spacing and Amhara region has the highest unmet need for limiting.
Figure F4a. Percentage of all and currently married women with unmet contraceptive need, by wealth quintile
Percentage with unmet need
30
20
10
0
Lowest Second Middle Fourth Highest
Wealth quintile
All women
Currently married
women
Figure F4b. Percentage of currently married women with unmet need for contraception to space or limit childbearing, by region
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Percentage of married women with unmet need
30
20
10
0
Addis Ababa Amhara Oromiya SNNPR Tigray Other
Regions
For limiting
For spacing