Unmet Need of Family Planning in a District of Western Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

Background: Despite great progress in the last decades, more than 120 million women worldwide want to prevent pregnancy but are not using contraceptives. Objective: To assess the prevalence of contraceptive use among the study group. To calculate the current unmet need of family planning Material& Methods: Community based, Cross-sectional study was done among 280 married women of reproductive age group residing in Agra City, using a standardized questionnaire to assess their fertility preferences & practices. Results: The Contraceptive Prevalence Rate is calculated as 45.4%. The unmet need of spacing is 21.0% and unmet need of limiting is 22.2%. Thus unmet need of family planning is 43.2%