Determining the population with unmet need and the population who use traditional contraceptives
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2017-12-18
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With increasing population in the Philippines, contraceptives have been seen as the
solution to this problem. Even though technology in contraception exists, there are
still many who do not utilize them. This paper shows who tend to not use
contraception, use traditional methods of contraception or, use contraception that is
considered to be not effective enough.
Applying logistic regression and multinomial logistic regression analysis on the
National Demographic and Health Survey of 2013 dataset, significant variables that
affect contraception use have been found.
For model 1: Using or not Using Contraceptives, it was found that there were
associations between a woman’s decision in using contraceptives and her education
level, wealth status, area of residence, work status, number of living children, age,
access to media, and the sex of the household head. Women who were better
educated, live in urban areas, have heard of family planning messages in television
and radio, and have more children usually use contraception over those who are less
educated, live in rural areas, have not heard of family planning messages and have
fewer children.
The second model (Modern method vs. Traditional method) results show that
women who are, richer, live in rural areas, employed, has more children, and are
younger, tend to use methods that are modern.
With this government can use this information to target specific areas where
contraception use is low and ineffective. Curriculums of schools may be changed in
order to accommodate topics such as family planning and contraception use.
The third model focused on identifying the determinants of contraceptive use that
were grouped based on their efficacy with respect to the base outcome Permanent
Method. The results show the group of population who tend to use Supply Method,
Natural Family Planning Method and Traditional Method over Permanent Method.
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population, traditional contraceptives, MEDICINE::Surgery::Obstetrics and women's diseases::Reproductive health