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YEAR: 1997

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Contraceptive switching in Bangladesh.

AUTHORS

Steele F; Diamond I

SOURCE

In: Comparative perspectives on fertility transition in South Asia. Based on the

seminar organized by the Committee on Fertility and Family Planning of the

International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the

Population Council, Islamabad, Rawalpindi / Islamabad, 17-19 December 1996.

Papers. Volume II. Liege, Belgium, International Union for the Scientific Study of

ABSTRACT

The major focus of the study was to examine the individual, community, and district factors influencing women to

continue or discontinue the use of a contraceptive method. The data came from the BDHS conducted between 1993

and 1994. In the selected households a total of 9640 ever-married women 15-49 years old were interviewed.

Retrospective data on contraceptive use were collected for a period of 6 years from April 1988 to the month of the

interview. The final sample consisted of 3826 intervals of pill use, 2345 intervals of other modern method use, and

1490 traditional contraceptive use intervals. The method changes made by a cohort of Bangladeshi women younger

than 25 were examined. In the country the impressive contraceptive prevalence was matched by an equally notable

rate of discontinuation. Only 13% of the women were still using the pill at the end of the period, and 65% of those

who discontinued had an unplanned pregnancy. Among women who used traditional methods only around one-

quarter were still using contraception at the end of the 24-month period. Women 30 or older were much less likely to

discontinue use to become pregnant or because of contraceptive failure. Teenage women were less likely than

those in their 20s and 30s to switch to a modern method. Women with few children were less motivated to continue.

Pill user who had at least secondary-level education had an increased chance of switching to a traditional method.

For pill users the risk of discontinuing in order to become pregnant or because of contraceptive failure was the

highest in Chittagong division. The rate of switching to nonuse while still in need of contraception was greater for

Muslims than for Hindus for any type of modern method. Condom users were most likely to switch to nonuse in most

cases because they wished to become pregnant. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 502-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Contraceptive switching in Bangladesh.", is(are) Steele F;

Diamond I. The source of this article is "In: Comparative perspectives on fertility transition in South Asia. Based on

the seminar organized by the Committee on Fertility and Family Planning of the International Union for the Scientific

Study of Population (IUSSP) and the Population Council, Islamabad, Rawalpindi / Islamabad, 17-19 December 1996.

Papers. Volume II. Liege, Belgium, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population [IUSSP], [1997]. :30 p.".

This article was published in 1997 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 502-06. All

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