The dynamics of contraceptive use in Peru.
In 1986, the Demographic and Health Surveys project administered the first six-year calendar history of events that included women's contraceptive use and their reasons for discontinuation in experimental surveys in Peru and the Dominican Republic. In this report the experimental survey from Peru is examined to demonstrate how the calendar data can be used to calculate multiple increment-decrement life table rates of contraceptive discontinuation--including contraceptive failure, method switching, and abandonment of use--and of resumption of method use following discontinuation. These analyses reveal that nearly half of all Peruvian women who begin to use a method will stop using it within one year; 29 percent of women discontinue method use for nonpregnancy-related reasons within one year of initiating use. Women who switch methods do so frequently, and many will return to a method used previously, or move on to a third method. Women who become pregnant after abandoning contraceptive use have similar contraceptive-use patterns to women who experience a contraceptive failure.
Alan Guttmacher Institute, New York, NY 10003.
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D000328:Adult; D003268:Contraception Behavior; D003276:Contraceptives, Oral / Q000008:administration & dosage; D003906:Developing Countries; D005193:Family Planning Services / Q000639:trends; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D015993:Life Tables; D012252:Natural Family Planning Methods; D010568:Peru; D011247:Pregnancy; D013245:Sterilization, Reproductive
D003276:Contraceptives, Oral