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YEAR: 1995

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Contraceptive use in Ghana. The role of service availability, quality, and

price.

AUTHORS

Oliver R

SOURCE

Washington, D.C., World Bank, 1995. xi, 46 p. LSMS Working Paper No. 11;

Living Standards Measurement Study

ABSTRACT

Data from the 1988-1989 Ghana Living Standards Survey was applied to a utility economic model of contraceptive

use, which incorporates a variety of exogenous indicators of the quality of family planning services, in order to

determine what, if any, quality characteristics influence contraceptive use. About 40% of all women were currently

using a family planning method, especially traditional methods (33% vs. 6% for modern contraception). Female

education, household expenditure, and urban birth significantly boosted the likelihood of using modern

contraception. Their effect on modern contraception use was more clear than their effect on fertility. Based on the

results of applying the data to the model, a reduction of the current mean distance to a facility providing family

planning services (currently 6.2 miles) would increase contraceptive use. Yet, pharmacies provided the most popular

methods and tended to be within 1.3 miles away from the women. As years of schooling increased, the negative

effect of distance to facility decreased. The number of methods at a facility was linked to lower fertility but did not

influence current contraceptive use. Availability of spermicides increased contraceptive use. The significance of

quality of service on contraceptive use or on fertility was unclear, probably because contraceptive prevalence was so

low and the cross-sectional survey did not include many users and could not gather enough detailed information on

quality of services. It could also have been due to factors (e.g., distance and price) that are binding constraints to

increased use of modern methods. Increasing modern contraceptive use among current family planning users in

urban areas (most of whom use traditional methods) would likely result in a lower-cost fertility reduction than

decreasing distance to facilities in rural areas. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 2503-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Contraceptive use in Ghana. The role of service availability,

quality, and price.", is(are) Oliver R. The source of this article is "Washington, D.C., World Bank, 1995. xi, 46 p.

LSMS Working Paper No. 11; Living Standards Measurement Study". This article was published in 1995 in English

language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 2503-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 7503

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