Description: Contraceptive prevalence rate by age group
Sub description2015
Age 15-1939
Age 20-2451.1
Age 25-2952.5
Age 30-3453.6
Age 35-3953
Age 15-2455.4
Age 15-2547
Description: Contraceptive prevalence rate by area
Sub description2015
Urban52.9
Rural50.2
Description: Contraceptive prevalence rate by district
Sub description2015
Corozal71.5
Orange Walk57.9
Belize (Exc Belize City South Side)55.7
Belize City South Side51.2
Cayo40.9
Stann Creek47.1
Toledo31.4
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DATA IDENTIFICATION


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.

Data source

Ministry of Health

DATA CHARACTERISTICS



Contact organization person

Ministry of Health

Date last updated
29-OCT-2019
Periodicity

Annual

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.

DATA CONCEPTS and CLASSIFICATIONS



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

Formula
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OTHER ASPECTS



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.

Limitations

N/A

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.