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YEAR: 1995

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Demand for family planning. [Demanda de planificacion familiar.]

AUTHORS

Parra J

SOURCE

In: Conversatorio: "Planificacion familiar y pobreza en el Peru", [compiled by]

Peru. Consejo Nacional de Poblacion. Lima, Peru, Consejo Nacional de

Poblacion, 1995. :17-23.

ABSTRACT

Factors related to the demand for family planning include infant mortality, ages at first intercourse and first union, and

fertility preferences. Peru's infant mortality rate was estimated at 55/1000 for 1987-91 based on the second

Demographic and Health Survey, and at 58.3/1000 for 1991 based on the 1993 census. Disorders originating in the

perinatal period are now the major cause of infant mortality. Infant mortality rates are much higher than the national

average in the Inka and Mariategui regions of the Andes, which have large rural populations, high rates of poverty and

female illiteracy, and limited accessibility of health services. Other factors associated with infant mortality are short

birth intervals, high parity, and pregnancy at the extremes of reproductive age. In Peru, first intercourse precedes

marriage by about two years. First intercourse is especially early in the lowlands and the Andes and among rural and

illiterate women. The average age at first union is 21.1 in Peru, but lower among rural and illiterate women and in

the lowlands and Andes. In 1992, 64% of all women in union, 70% aged 30-34, and 69% with two living children did

not want more. Peru's total fertility rate exceeds the ideal number of children by around one child. The discrepancy

is greatest for rural and illiterate women. Unsatisfied demand for family planning is highest in the regions of

Libertadores, Loreto, Inka and San Martin, which also have high rates of failure among contraceptive users. Urban

and educated women and those living in Lima and elsewhere on the coast have a higher degree of satisfied demand

for family planning. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 2518-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Demand for family planning. [Demanda de planificacion

familiar.]", is(are) Parra J. The source of this article is "In: Conversatorio: "Planificacion familiar y pobreza en el

Peru", [compiled by] Peru. Consejo Nacional de Poblacion. Lima, Peru, Consejo Nacional de Poblacion, 1995. :17-

23.". This article was published in 1995 in Spanish language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 2518-06.

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