Malawi 2015-16

Table A-7.13 Decision-making about family planning: Districts
Among currently married women age 15-49 who are current users of family planning, percent distribution by who makes the decision to use
family planning, among currently married women who are not currently using family planning, percent distribution by who makes the decision
not to use family planning, according to district, Malawi DHS 2015-16
District
Among currently married women who are current users of
family planning
Mainly
wife
Wife and
husband
jointly
Mainly
husband
Other/
don’t
know/
missing
Total
Number
of
women
Among currently married women who are not using family
planning
Mainly
wife
Wife and
husband
jointly
Mainly
husband
Other/
don’t
know/
missing
Total
Number
of
women
Northern
Chitipa 11.2 72.5 15.7 0.6 100.0 110 13.3 68.3 17.0 1.4 100.0 42
Karonga 16.6 74.7 8.2 0.5 100.0 201 29.7 55.8 8.8 5.6 100.0 85
Likoma 16.6 81.7 1.3 0.5 100.0 7 36.5 49.3 8.9 5.4 100.0 3
Mzimba 10.0 81.2 7.1 1.7 100.0 575 18.8 71.7 8.5 1.0 100.0 386
Nkhata Bay 16.6 78.3 3.5 1.6 100.0 99 20.0 61.3 9.7 9.1 100.0 99
Rumphi 14.0 72.8 11.0 2.2 100.0 133 15.7 60.8 9.6 13.9 100.0 48
Total 12.4 78.0 8.2 1.4 100.0 1,125 19.9 67.0 9.3 3.8 100.0 662
Central
Dedza 8.9 87.2 3.1 0.9 100.0 449 31.2 57.3 5.2 6.2 100.0 191
Dowa 6.1 86.3 6.7 0.8 100.0 472 16.2 74.4 5.9 3.6 100.0 182
Kasungu 14.7 77.0 7.3 1.0 100.0 455 25.8 62.3 7.8 4.1 100.0 150
Lilongwe 11.2 85.0 2.6 1.3 100.0 1,784 26.9 61.0 4.7 7.5 100.0 583
Mchinji 7.2 86.1 6.3 0.4 100.0 318 18.7 65.1 10.5 5.7 100.0 132
Nkhotakota 13.6 82.4 1.7 2.4 100.0 180 29.8 61.2 3.9 5.1 100.0 128
Ntcheu 6.7 85.9 7.4 0.0 100.0 362 35.6 52.5 5.7 6.2 100.0 173
Ntchisi 9.1 84.5 6.1 0.3 100.0 195 29.1 61.6 7.1 2.2 100.0 86
Salima 15.7 78.1 5.9 0.4 100.0 238 43.2 45.0 4.9 6.9 100.0 155
Total 10.4 84.2 4.5 1.0 100.0 4,453 28.1 60.2 5.7 5.9 100.0 1,779
Southern
Balaka 16.5 75.0 7.7 0.8 100.0 204 36.5 53.3 8.6 1.6 100.0 115
Blantyre 16.2 80.2 2.8 0.8 100.0 743 24.4 66.8 7.0 1.7 100.0 388
Chikhwawa 10.2 65.7 23.1 1.0 100.0 282 17.3 55.4 23.9 3.4 100.0 158
Chiradzulu 12.0 76.0 11.4 0.6 100.0 228 45.7 47.3 7.0 0.0 100.0 70
Machinga 16.3 77.1 6.6 0.0 100.0 270 40.2 50.8 8.2 0.8 100.0 228
Mangochi 31.3 55.8 11.7 1.2 100.0 323 63.3 21.8 11.9 3.0 100.0 566
Mulanje 12.6 76.2 10.6 0.6 100.0 404 30.1 50.1 14.8 5.0 100.0 224
Mwanza 6.3 83.2 10.5 0.0 100.0 69 36.1 47.1 15.1 1.7 100.0 38
Neno 11.8 82.3 5.2 0.7 100.0 91 35.8 47.4 12.0 4.8 100.0 49
Nsanje 17.4 73.0 9.1 0.5 100.0 134 26.8 63.2 9.3 0.7 100.0 90
Phalombe 9.7 80.9 8.3 1.1 100.0 276 23.4 64.7 7.0 5.0 100.0 109
Thyolo 7.9 84.1 7.0 0.9 100.0 409 21.0 66.9 8.1 4.0 100.0 221
Zomba 21.8 72.1 4.2 1.9 100.0 542 25.9 63.2 5.6 5.4 100.0 247
Total 15.7 75.3 8.2 0.9 100.0 3,975 36.1 50.5 10.3 3.0 100.0 2,502
Total 12.8 79.7 6.5 1.0 100.0 9,552 31.1 56.2 8.5 4.2 100.0 4,944
Note: Table excludes women who are currently pregnant.
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