Authors : S. M. S. Islam , M. Z. Bhuiyan , M. A. Karim and M. Morshed
Abstract: This study makes an attempt to examine the effects of various socio- economic, demographic, and programmatic characteristics on unmet contraceptive need for birth spacing and birth limiting purposes in Bangladesh. In conducting the work, the nationally representative data from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys (BDHS) 1996-`97 and 1999-`00 were used. Unmet need for contraception is found to be slightly lower in BDHS 1999-2000 compared with BDHS 1996-`97. The study reveals that birth spacers have higher need for family planning than those who want to limit their next unwanted births. Logistic regression analysis explores that discussion with partner regarding family planning, number of living children, duration of marriage, region of residence, age of respondents, and number of visits by family planning workers are strong significant predictors of unmet contraceptive need for birth spacing both in BDHS 1996-`97 and BDHS 1999-2000. Along with the aforesaid predictors place of residence, and religion also show significant association with unmet contraceptive need for birth limiting of the former survey while only the education of respondents, religion, duration of marriage, and region of residence are observed to have considerable connection with birth limiting for the latter one.
S. M. S. Islam , M. Z. Bhuiyan , M. A. Karim and M. Morshed , 2004. Unmet Contraceptive Need for Birth Spacing and Birth Limiting in Bangladesh: The Experience from Demographic and Health Surveys 1996-`97 and 1999-2000 . Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences, 2: 336-344.