Demographic and Health Surveys Methodology - Measure DHS

4. Number of women not using contraception who are currently pregnant or postpartumamenorrheic (within six months of birth) due to a failure of contraception and who did notwant to become pregnant at the time of conception.5. Total demand for family planning: sum of numbers of women with an unmet need forcontraception, using contraception, or an unwanted pregnancy or postpartum amenorrhea dueto a contraceptive failure.C. Denominator: Number of currently married women.Calculation:First select only currently married women for numerators and denominator.A. Numerators:Unmet Need1. Select women who are not currently using a contraceptive method.2. For surveys following the “A” core questionnaire, exclude women who are pregnant orpostpartum amenorrheic for less than six months, whose pregnancy or last birth was the resultof a failure of contraception (given as a reason for discontinuing contraception in thereproductive calendar). For surveys following the “B” core questionnaire, there is no way todetermine contraceptive failure.3. Exclude women who are infecund. A woman is infecund ifa) She declares that she had a hysterectomy or is menopausic in responses to the questionson why she does not intend to use contraception in the future or when her last periodoccurred.b) She is neither pregnant nor postpartum amenorrheic and has not had a menstruation for atleast six months, or never menstruated, or her last menstruation occurred before her lastbirth.c) In surveys following the “A” core questionnaire, she has not had a birth in the precedingfive years, has not used contraception during that time, and has been continuouslymarried during that time (derived from the reproductive calendar).d) In surveys following the “B” core questionnaire, she has not had a birth in the precedingfive years, has never used contraception, and was first married more than five yearspreceding the survey.4. Unmet need for spacinga) Include women who are neither pregnant nor less than six months postpartumamenorrheic and whoi. Say they want to wait at least two years for their next birth or,Guide to DHS Statistics 79 Updated September 2006