Bangladesh 1993-1994 Demographic and Health ... - Measure DHS

Fifty-five percent of husbands (versus 45 percent of currently married women) said that they werecurrently using a method of family planning at the time of the survey (see Table 9.4). 2 The principalmethods husbands report are the pill (23 percent), female sterilization, (9 percent), and periodic abstinence(8 percen0. Use of the pill prevails among all but the oldest groups of husbands; those over age 50 are morelikely to be relying on female sterilization than on the pill. Contraceptive use among husbands is higher inurban than rural areas (63 vs. 54 percen0. It is also highest among husbands in Khulna and RajshahiDivisions and lowest in Chittagong and Dhaka Divisions. Use of family planning increases sharply witheducation level, from 49 percent of husbands with no education to 65 percent of those with secondaryeducation or higher.Table 9.4 Current use of family planning among husbandsPercent dista'ibution of husbands by contraceptive method currently used, according to background characteristics, Bangladesh1993-94Modern methodTtadit*onal methodFemale MaleAny steri- sten- Any periodic Net NumberBackground Any modem Injec- Con- liza- liza- trad. absti- With- currently ofcharacteristic method method Pill IUD tlcm dora tion tion method hence drawal Other using Total husbandsAge20-24 34.3 26.4 18.0 1.8 2.9 3.7 0.0 0.0 7.9 5.9 2.0 0.0 65.7 100.0 16525-29 48.0 39.3 26.6 1.5 4.4 5.7 0.9 0.1 8.7 6.4 1.7 0.6 52.0 100.0 46330-34 54.3 44.6 27.1 1.7 4.5 4.9 4.9 1.6 9.6 8.0 1.3 0.4 45.7 100.0 64835-39 61.1 50.9 29.1 3.5 5.5 3.7 6.4 2.7 10.2 6.7 1.9 1.6 38.9 100.0 56440-44 69.6 56.7 27.8 2.6 6.5 4.9 11.7 3.1 12.9 8.6 2.8 1.5 30.4 100.0 40545-49 68.1 51.8 21.0 2.3 6.2 3.5 15.5 3.3 16.3 9.3 4.0 3.0 31.9 100.0 32950-54 53.7 39.3 14.2 0.7 3.3 3.4 15.8 1.9 14.4 10.1 2.1 2.2 46.3 100.0 27855-59 46.1 32.3 9.0 0.4 3.0 1.2 15.5 3.2 13.7 9.4 2.0 2.4 53.9 100.0 24060+ 38.5 28.5 6.9 1.1 0.0 0.6 15.6 4.4 9.9 7.2 2.1 0.6 61.5 100.0 173ResidenceUrban 62.9 51.1 26.0 2.7 4.9 9.2 6.9 1.4 11.8 8.5 2.5 0.9 37.1 100.0 379Rural 54.1 42.9 22.4 1.8 45 3.3 8.7 2.2 11.2 7.8 2.1 1.4 45.9 100.0 2905DivisionBarisal 59.2 48.9 24.5 1.7 6.8 4.0 9.5 2.4 10.3 4.8 3.8 1.7 40.8 100.0 197Chittagong 42.9 31.3 15.6 2.0 4.2 3.0 5.8 n.7 11.6 8.0 1.9 1.7 57.1 100.0 778Dhaka 52.5 42.2 22.0 1.7 4.4 4.4 8.0 1.7 10.4 8.2 0.9 1.3 47.5 I00.0 999Khulna 65.3 48.7 22.6 3.1 6.2 5.6 9.5 1.8 16.6 10.1 5.4 1.2 34.7 100.0 452Rajshahi 63.1 53.5 29.9 1.6 3.6 3.6 10.7 4.1 9.5 6.9 1.7 0.9 36.9 100.0 858EdueatlonNo education 49.2 39.8 20.3 1.2 4.4 1,6 9.7 2.7 9.4 7.0 1.3 1.1 50.8 100.0 1385Prirtmxy ineompleth 52.5 39.8 20.1 1.6 4.6 3.1 8.9 1.6 12.6 9.1 1.9 1.6 47.5 100.0 775Primary complete 60.8 48.1 25.4 2.2 7.4 3.1 8.3 1.8 12.8 10.4 0.6 1.8 39.2 100.0 239Secondary/ltigher 65.3 52.6 28.3 3.5 3.9 8.8 6.2 1.9 12.7 7.5 4.0 1.3 34.7 100.0 885Total 55.2 43.9 22,8 1.9 4.5 4.0 8.5 2.1 11.3 7.9 2.1 1.3 44.8 100.0 3284Not~: Total includes 19 husbands age 15-19, too small a number to show separately.2 There are two reasons why the proportion of husbands using family planning might be higher than the proportionof currently married women (in general) using family planning, First, that couples in which both spouses wereinterviewed have higher prevalence rotes than those in which only the wife was interviewed (49 percent of the wiveswhose husbands were interviewed reported current use vs. only 45 percent of all married women). Secondly, husbandswere asked about contraceptive use in general and not specifically with their wives, thus, the data from husbands couldtheoretically include extra-marital contraceptive use.123