Contraceptive Concordance

Sarah Vincent, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, S Anukriti and Mahesh Karra

No 11148, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: This paper proposes an indicator of contraceptive concordance that identifies the alignment between stated preferences for contraception and concurrent contraceptive behavior. The proposed indicator departs from traditional approaches to measurement in family planning that infer concordance from the alignment between women’s contraceptive (non-)use and their fertility preferences. The indicator is estimated using data from a cross-sectional survey that was conducted with 1,958 married women in rural India. More than half of the women in the sample (51.2 percent) report that they are currently using a contraceptive method. More than three in five women (60.8 percent) were classified as wanting to use a contraceptive method at the time of the survey. While 60 percent of the sample women are classified to be concordant (either wanted users or wanted non-users), almost one in four women (24.8 percent) state a preference for using contraception but are not users (unwanted non-users), and 15.2 percent of the women state a preference for not using contraception but are users (unwanted users). The paper discusses the comparative advantages and limitations of this approach relative to traditional measures and other recently developed indicators.

Date: 2025-06-23
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/0996391 ... d89-ebc19c99c61c.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (https://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099639106232533412/pdf/IDU-1ddfdcef-e4e8-4a6e-bd89-ebc19c99c61c.pdf [302 Found]--> http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099639106232533412/pdf/IDU-1ddfdcef-e4e8-4a6e-bd89-ebc19c99c61c.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099639106232533412/pdf/IDU-1ddfdcef-e4e8-4a6e-bd89-ebc19c99c61c.pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Contraceptive Concordance (2025)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:11148

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Roula I. Yazigi ().