Table 3 Percentage of women with specific opinions by use status (Matlab)
From: Women’s attitudes and beliefs towards specific contraceptive methods in Bangladesh and Kenya
Attributes | Pills | Injectables | Implants | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Current users | Past users | Never users | Current users | Past users | Never users | Current users | Past users | Never users | |
Access | |||||||||
Easy | 98.6 | 98.3 | 92.4 | 98.5 | 95.5 | 84.0 | 96.5 | 87.5 | 64.7 |
Hard | 1.4 | 1.5 | 5.0 | 1.5 | 4.2 | 13.0 | 1.8 | 12.5 | 25.8 |
Don’t know/unsure | 0.0 | 0.2 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 9.5 |
Effectiveness | |||||||||
Yes | 99.8 | 99.4 | 98.5 | 98.9 | 99.1 | 98.1 | 100.0 | 96.4 | 96.9 |
No | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 3.6 | 0.5 |
Don’t know | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.6 |
Cause health problems | |||||||||
Yes, serious | 0.9 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 2.2 | 11.0 | 6.7 | 1.8 | 28.6 | 8.0 |
Yes, not serious | 10.6 | 23.6 | 24.7 | 22.6 | 43.3 | 29.5 | 24.6 | 35.7 | 14.5 |
No | 88.5 | 72.4 | 36.6 | 75.3 | 45.5 | 23.6 | 71.9 | 28.6 | 9.0 |
Don’t know | 0.0 | 0.2 | 35.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 40.2 | 1.7 | 7.1 | 68.5 |
Interfere with menstruation | |||||||||
Yes | 6.0 | 9.0 | 5.8 | 67.9 | 72.2 | 41.8 | 43.9 | 53.6 | 14.0 |
No | 93.8 | 90.6 | 56.6 | 31.0 | 27.5 | 14.0 | 52.6 | 39.3 | 11.1 |
Don’t know | 0.2 | 0.4 | 37.6 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 44.2 | 3.5 | 7.1 | 74.9 |
Cause unpleasant side effect | |||||||||
Yes | 14.1 | 31.9 | 26.5 | 26.3 | 52.3 | 31.8 | 29.8 | 57.1 | 17.4 |
No | 85.8 | 67.7 | 37.9 | 73.3 | 47.3 | 26.0 | 66.7 | 37.5 | 10.1 |
Don’t know | 0.2 | 0.4 | 36.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 42.2 | 3.5 | 5.4 | 72.5 |
Unsafe to use for a long time | |||||||||
Yes, should take a break | 18.9 | 24.7 | 14.8 | 24.5 | 27.0 | 20.5 | 36.8 | 37.5 | 19.4 |
No, safe for long time | 79.8 | 73.4 | 69.9 | 74.4 | 72.1 | 60.9 | 61.4 | 53.6 | 52.5 |
Don’t know | 1.3 | 1.9 | 15.2 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 18.6 | 1.8 | 8.9 | 28.1 |
Cause infertility | |||||||||
Yes, perhaps | 6.5 | 10.3 | 7.6 | 6.1 | 7.1 | 6.2 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 4.3 |
No | 90.9 | 85.9 | 76.6 | 91.8 | 89.9 | 78.6 | 87.7 | 91.1 | 74.0 |
Don’t know | 2.6 | 3.8 | 15.8 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 15.2 | 8.8 | 8.9 | 21.7 |
FP use among friends, relatives | |||||||||
Most | 32.5 | 24.2 | 18.0 | 27.8 | 20.3 | 10.7 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 0.7 |
About half | 15.0 | 10.5 | 11.3 | 18.0 | 14.7 | 13.8 | 7.0 | 5.3 | 1.1 |
Few | 48.8 | 56.1 | 55.8 | 47.9 | 54.3 | 52.3 | 71.9 | 67.9 | 39.7 |
None | 1.8 | 5.0 | 5.2 | 3.0 | 6.2 | 11.6 | 8.8 | 21.4 | 28.8 |
Don’t know | 1.9 | 4.2 | 9.7 | 3.3 | 4.5 | 11.6 | 10.5 | 3.6 | 29.7 |
Experiences of friends, relatives (1) | |||||||||
Satisfactory | 98.4 | 95.3 | 92.4 | 95.8 | 88.8 | 87.3 | 93.5 | 71.4 | 76.6 |
Unsatisfactory | 0.5 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 2.6 | 9.7 | 3.7 | 4.3 | 21.4 | 8.2 |
Mixed/Don’t know | 1.1 | 1.3 | 6.3 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 9.0 | 2.2 | 7.1 | 15.1 |
Husband’s approval | |||||||||
Approve | 98.8 | 94.9 | 63.8 | 97.6 | 88.9 | 48.9 | 96.5 | 67.9 | 16.6 |
Disapprove | 1.2 | 4.6 | 22.7 | 2.4 | 10.6 | 38.6 | 3.5 | 25.0 | 66.8 |
Don’t know | 0.0 | 0.5 | 13.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 12.5 | 0.0 | 7.1 | 16.6 |
Satisfied with use | |||||||||
Satisfied | 92.2 | 69.7 | – | 91.3 | 51.1 | – | 87.7 | 39.3 | – |
Unsatisfied | 4.8 | 27.7 | – | 8.0 | 47.2 | – | 10.5 | 51.8 | – |
Mixed/Neither | 3.0 | 2.6 | – | 0.7 | 1.7 | – | 1.8 | 8.9 | – |
Mean net positive score (2) | 74.8 | 60.9 | 48.8 | 53.3 | 34.7 | 31.0 | 45.8 | 19.2 | 24.0 |
Mean % of don’t know (3) | 0.8 | 1.4 | 19.2 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 22.0 | 3.9 | 5.1 | 38.4 |
TOTAL(N) | 662 | 1399 | 539 | 461 | 877 | 1245 | 57 | 56 | 2140 |