- Name
- Contraceptive prevalence rate
- Indicator purpose
- Contraceptive prevalence rate is an indicator of health, population, development and women's empowerment.
- Abstract
- Contraceptive prevalence rate is the proportion of women of reproductive age who are using (or whose partner is using) a contraceptive method at a given point in time. Contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) provides a measure of population coverage of contraceptive use, taking into account all sources of supply and all contraceptive methods; it is the most widely reported measure of outcome for family planning programs at the population level.
- Contact organization / person
- Ministry of Health
- Unit of measure
- Ratio
- Other characteristics
- Contraceptive prevalence rate is gathered from household surveys [such as Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), Multiple Indicators Cluster Surveys (MICS)], contraceptive prevalence surveys. Estimates can also be made from service statistics using census projections as a denominator. Such estimates however are often expressed in terms of couple years of protection and may not always be complete.
- Classification used
- Contraceptive methods include clinic and supply (modern) methods and non-supply (traditional) methods. Clinic and supply methods include female and male sterilization, intrauterine devices (IUDs), hormonal methods (oral pills, injectables, and hormone-releasing implants, skin patches and vaginal rings), condoms and vaginal barrier methods (diaphragm, cervical cap and spermicidal foams, jellies, creams and sponges). Traditional methods include rhythm, withdrawal, abstinence and lactational amenorrhoea.
- Disaggregation
- Disaggregation is by age (adolescence), marital status, method of contraception, location (urban/rural, major regions/provinces), and socio-economic characteristics (e.g. education level, wealth quintile).
- Key statistical concepts
- The indicator is calculated as follows:
(# of women 15-49 using a contraceptive method / total # of women 15-49) x 100
- Recommended uses
- This indicator serves as a proxy measure of access to reproductive health services that are essential for meeting many of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG)s, especially the child mortality, maternal health HIV/AIDS, and gender related goals.
- Other comments
- All the metadata shown was gathered and extracted from https://www.who.int/whosis/whostat2006ContraceptivePrevalenceRate.pdf and https://www.measureevaluation.org/prh/rh_indicators/family-planning/fp/cpr.
