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YEAR: 1998

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Pakistan Contraceptive Prevalence Survey 1994-95: final report.

AUTHORS

Population Council; Ministry of Population Welfare; United Nations Population

Fund [UNFPA]

SOURCE

Islamabad, Pakistan, Population Council, 1998 Mar. x, 166, [86] p.

ABSTRACT

This report presents final results from the Contraceptive Prevalence Survey carried out in Pakistan in 1994-1995. The

survey included a nationally representative sample of 7,922 married women aged 15-49. The report has chapters on

survey methodology, data quality, household and respondent characteristics, marriage patterns, knowledge of family

planning methods, use of family planning, fertility levels and trends, fertility preferences, unmet needs for family

planning, and quality of family planning services. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 22-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Pakistan Contraceptive Prevalence Survey 1994-95: final

report.", is(are) Population Council; Ministry of Population Welfare; United Nations Population Fund [UNFPA]. The

source of this article is "Islamabad, Pakistan, Population Council, 1998 Mar. x, 166, [86] p.". This article was

published in 1998 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 22-06. All rights reserved with

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