Family Planning

Contraceptive Prevalence Rate remains at 49 percent

Almost half of currently married 15-49 years old women in the Philippines use a family planning method, according to the 2005 Family Planning Survey (FPS). The contraceptive prevalence rate has not changed in the last five years, based on the results of the FPS conducted in the years 2001 to 2005. Thirty-six percent of married women rely on a modern method, mostly the pill (17 percent) and female sterilization (9 percent). Users of modern natural family planning methods comprise less than one percent. Modern natural family planning methods include cervical mucus method or ovulation method, or Billings method, standard days method (SDM) and lactational amenorrhea method (LAM). Thirteen percent of married women use a traditional method like withdrawal and calendar or rhythm method.

Maternal Mortality Slightly Declined, MDG Target May Not Be Achievable

For every 100,000 live births in the Philippines, 162 women die during pregnancy and childbirth or shortly after childbirth, according to the 2006 Family Planning Survey (FPS). This ratio of maternal deaths to live births, estimated from interviews with about 45,000 women in April 2006, is lower than the last available estimate of 172 deaths from the 1998 National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). Both estimates of the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) were made by asking women about the survivorship of their sisters and whether any deaths of sisters were maternity-related. Both estimates refer to 7-year period prior to the year the survey was conducted. The latest estimate refers to the period 1999-2006. The MMR is defined as the number of women who die from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management (excluding accidental or incidental causes) during pregnancy and childbirth or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, per 100,000 live births.

Prevalence Rate for Modern Methods Unchanged at 36 Percent

Thirty-six for every 100 married women were using modern family planning (FP) method in 2006, according to the 2006 Family Planning Survey. This is the same as the previous year's rate of modern contraceptive use. The contraceptive prevalence rate or the proportion of women using any FP method was 50.6 percent in 2006 compared to 49.3 percent in 2005. This observed difference is not statistically significant (Table 1).

Contraceptive Use in the Philippines (Results from the 1996 Family Planning Survey)

The 1996 Family Planning Survey (FPS) is a nationwide survey aimed at collecting information on contraceptive use in the Philippines in 1996. It is the second in a series of annual family planning surveys to be conducted by the National Statistics Office (NSO) from 1995 to 1999 with funding assistance from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

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