Palestinian Family Survey 2010 Final Report - Palestinian Central ...

PCBS: Palestinian Family Survey, 2010Data show that about 43 percent of currently married women do not use contraceptives as they desire to have anotherchild, while about 11 percent fear for side effects of using contraceptives. About seven percent find it inconvenient toavail family planning methods, while in five percent of cases, their husbands disagree.Table PRH.6: Main reason for not using contraceptivesPercentage Distribution of Women Aged 15-49 Years Currently Married who are not using any method by Main Reasonand Region, State of Palestine, 2010Main reason for not using West Bank Gaza Strip State of PalestineDesire to have another child 39.9 46.5 42.5Oppose family planning 0.3 1.3 0.7Husband disagree 4.4 5.5 4.8Fear of side effects 10.1 11.6 10.7Difficulty of getting methods 0.2 0.1 0.2High cost 0.5 0.1 0.4Inconvenient to available methods 7.3 5.1 6.5Menopause 6.5 6.0 6.3Husband is absent 4.4 2.4 3.6Contradict religious believes 0.4 0.7 0.5Other 26.0 20.7 23.9Total 100.0 100.0 100.0Currently married women 6704 3913 10617Unmet NeedUnmet need for contraception refers to fecund women who are not using any method of contraception, but who wishto postpone the next birth (spacing) or who wish to stop childbearing altogether (limiting). Unmet need is identifiedin PFS 2010 by using a set of questions eliciting current behaviours and preferences pertaining to contraceptive use,fecundity, and fertility preferences.Table RH.5 shows the results of the survey on contraception, unmet need, and the demand for contraception satisfied.Unmet need for spacing is defined as percentage of women who are not using a method of contraception AND• are not pregnant and not postpartum amenorrheic and are fecund and say they want to wait two or more years fortheir next birth OR• are not pregnant and not postpartum amenorrheic and are fecund and unsure whether they want another child OR• are pregnant and say that pregnancy was mistimed: would have wanted to wait OR• are postpartum amenorrheic and say that the birth was mistimed: would have wanted to waitUnmet need for limiting is defined as percentage of women who are not using a method of contraception AND• are not pregnant and not postpartum amenorrheic and are fecund and say they do not want any more children OR• are pregnant and say they didn’t want to have a child OR• are postpartum amenorrheic and say that they didn’t want the birthMet need for limiting includes women who are using a contraceptive method and who want no more children, areusing male or female sterilization or declare themselves as infecund. Met need for spacing includes women who areusing a contraceptive method and who want to have another child or undecided whether to have another child. Thetotal of met need for spacing and limiting add up to the total met need for contraception. Results show that met needfor limiting is 32 percent and for spacing is 20 percent.Total unmet need for contraception is simply the sum of unmet need for spacing and unmet need for limiting.86