Division of Social Statistics and Demography, Centre for Global Health, Population, Poverty and Policy, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Popul Stud (Camb). 2012 Jul;66(2):105-22. doi: 10.1080/00324728.2012.678585. Epub 2012 May 4.
The importance of meeting the unmet need for contraception is nowhere more urgent than in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, where the fertility decline is stalling and total unmet need exceeds 30 per cent among married women. In Ghana, where fertility levels vary considerably, demographic information at sub-national level is essential for building effective family planning programmes. We used small-area estimation techniques, linking data from the 2003 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey to the 2000 Ghana Population and Housing Census, to derive district-level estimates of contraceptive use and unmet need for contraception. The results show considerable variation between districts in contraceptive use and unmet need. The prevalence of contraceptive use varies from 4.1 to 41.7 per cent, while that of the use of modern methods varies from 4.0 to 34.8 per cent. The findings identify districts where family planning programmes need to be strengthened.
满足避孕未满足需求的重要性在撒哈拉以南非洲国家最为紧迫，这些国家的生育率下降停滞，已婚妇女的总避孕未满足需求超过 30%。在加纳，生育率差异较大，因此需要在国家以下各级获得人口统计信息，以制定有效的计划生育方案。我们使用小区域估计技术，将来自 2003 年加纳人口与健康调查的数据与 2000 年加纳人口与住房普查的数据相联系，得出了地区一级的避孕措施使用率和避孕未满足需求的估计数。结果表明，各地区之间在避孕措施使用率和避孕未满足需求方面存在着相当大的差异。避孕措施的使用率从 4.1%到 41.7%不等，而现代方法的使用率从 4.0%到 34.8%不等。调查结果确定了需要加强计划生育方案的地区。
