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YEAR: 1968

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Evaluation techniques in family planning.

AUTHORS

SOURCE

IPPF Medical Bulletin 2(5): 4. 1968.

ABSTRACT

What proved to be a lively yet highly technical conference on the assessment of the acceptance and use-

effctiveness of family planning methods was held in Bangkok last June by ECAFE on the initiative of Dr. C.

Chandrasekaran, the regional demographic adviser. The meeting was attended by a strong contingent of

demographers, sociologists and statisticans from the USA and by workers from Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea,

Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. There were representatives of FAO, WHO and

the Population Division of the UN. The conference considered and debated a wide range of issues involved in

evaluation, from the definition of terms to detailed procedures in the calculation of indices and the detection of

fertility trends. A certain amount of new ground was broken with the introduction of the concept of "extended use-

effectiveness" (the study of pregnancy rates among acceptors of a method beyond the point of discontinuance) and

the presentation of new methods of calculating births prevented by contraceptive use. Some progress was made

towards laying down standards for the frequency of performance of surveys, both of K.A.P. in populations at large,

and of contraceptive continuance and event-rates among acceptors. Attention was given to the special problems of

evaluation presented by oral contraceptives, and by data on abortions and sterilizations. The proven usefulness of

the life-table method of studying use-effectiveness was reaffirmed, and work on refining this now basic tool of

evaluation was reported. A number of quite different schemes of data collection and processing for study of the

characteristics of acceptors was described, and it was accepted by the participants that, although as much

standardization as possible was desirable, each programme must make its own selection from the range of

possibilities in the light of specific conditions. In addition to the main lines of analysis of use-effectiveness and

programme effectiveness, the conference spent some time on discussion of such subjects as cost analysis,

sensitive indices of fertility change, and the use of models in connection with programme study and evaluation. The

specific evaluation needs and procedures of a number of countries in the ECAFE region were described. Although

the conference fell far short of providing a comprehensive and agreed set of rules for the evaluation of family planning

programmes. Indeed this was not its objective it admirably performed the function of acquainting theoretical and

practical workers with each other's problems, and ensuring that all concerned were brought up-to-date on the

progress being made in the region in the development and use of evaluation tools. (PubHealth.info Document ID:

CONT9T 1020-06)

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