Contraceptive Use in the Philppines (Results from the 1999 Family Planning Survey)

The 1999 Family Planning Survey (FPS) is a nationwide survey aimed at collecting information on contraceptive use in the Philippines in 1999. It is the fourth in a series of annual family planning surveys to be conducted by the National Statistics Office (NSO) from 1995 to 2000 with funding assistance from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Pill Remains as Most Popular Contraceptive (Results from the 2000 Family Planning Survey)

The pill remains as the most popular contraceptive method among currently married women with 13.7 percent using this method. Ranking second is female sterilization (10.6%), which is followed closely by calendar/rhythm (9.5%). These are findings from the results of the 2000 Family Planning Survey (FPS) conducted by the National Statistics Office with funding assistance from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

1998 National Demographic and Health Survey - Maternal Health

MATERNAL HEALTH
Tetanus Toxoid Coverage

Tetanus toxoid injections are given during pregnancy in order to prevent neonatal tetanus, a frequent cause of infant deaths when sterile procedures are not observed in cutting the umbilical cord following delivery. Table MH1 shows that, for 69 percent of births in the five-year period before the survey, the mother received at least one tetanus toxoid injection during pregnancy. This represents a slight increase from the 64 percent level in 1993 (NSO and MI, 1994:94). Tetanus toxoid coverage is lower for births in ARMM region and those to women with no education.

1998 National Demographic and Health Survey - Fertility Preferences

Respondents in the 1998 NDHS were asked whether they wanted to have another child and, if so, how soon. Table FP1 summarizes the information on women’s reproductive preferences. Half (51 percent) of currently married women in the Philippines say they want no more children, and an additional 10 percent have been sterilized (Figure FP1. Thirty-two percent of women want to have a child at some time in the future; however, the majority of these women (19 percent of all currently married women) say they would like to wait two or more years before having their next birth. Only 12 percent of women say they want to have a child soon and 4 percent are undecided about whether they want to have another child. Thus, the vast majority of married women (81 percent) want either to space their next birth or to limit childbearing altogether.

1998 National Demographic and Health Survey - Fertility

Age-specific and total fertility rates for the survey are calculated directly from the pregnancy history data and are shown in Table 1, along with the mean number of children ever born. The total and age-specific fertility rates are for the three-year period before the survey, a period covering principally the calendar year 1995-1997. The total fertility rate is the sum of the age-specific and is a useful measure of of the level of recent fertility. It represent the number of children a woman would have by the end of her reproductive years if she were to bear children at the currently observed age-specific rates. The total fertility rate for the three-year period before the survey (approximately 1995-1997) is 3.7. As can be seen in Figure 1, Filipino women have a late pattern of childbearing

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