TABLES: Consequences of the Shift from Domiciliary Distribution To Site-Based Family Planning Services in Bangladesh

	International Family Planning Perspectives Volume 27, Number 2, June 2001
	Consequences of the Shift from Domiciliary Distribution To Site-Based Family Planning Services in Bangladesh TABLES

Table 1. Selected measures of family planning use in an urban area of Dhaka city (Zone 3), by year and quarter, before and after change in service delivery policy, 1996-1998
Measure	Before change						After change
	1996				1997		1997		1998
	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4
Contraceptive prevalence rate women of repro. age	54	54	54	56	55	56	55	55	56	55	57	56
Among base sample†	54	56	56	58	59	59	60	60	61	60	62	62
Among newly enrolled‡	na	21	24	25	28	30	29	30	31	33	32	32
Method mix
Pill	23	23	23	22	24	24	22	23	24	24	24	24
Condom	10	9	9	11	10	11	11	10	11	10	11	11
Injectable	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	6
IUD/implant	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Sterilization	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	5	6	6	6
Traditional method	7	7	7	8	7	7	8	8	8	7	7	6
No. of currently married women of reproductive age
Total	5,000	5,070	5,100	5,005	5,198	5,080	5,250	5,343	5,305	5,357	5,361	5,445
Base sample†	5,000	4,855	4,710	4,622	4,563	4,501	4,489	4,462	4,430	4,392	4,374	4,349
Newly enrolled‡	na	215	390	383	635	579	761	881	875	965	987	1,096
No. of current contraceptive users
Total	2,695	2,721	2,754	2,783	2,883	2,838	2,910	2,951	2,964	2,942	3,031	3,048
Continuing	2,383	2,336	2,350	2,398	2,451	2,483	2,519	2,501	2,509	2,515	2,559	2,597
New	312	385	404	385	432	355	391	450	455	427	472	451
New acceptance rate§
Total	12	14	15	14	15	13	13	15	15	15	16	15
Drop-outs
Total number	195	197	184	165	193	212	227	197	199	191	148	152
Rate††	8	8	7	6	7	8	8	7	7	7	5	6
% distribution of users, by source of method
Clinic	35	37	38	35	36	36	33	34	35	36	38	39
Doorstep	22	21	17	17	17	16	9	6	2	2	0	0
Pharmacy/shop	30	30	31	32	33	35	42	43	45	47	48	50
Other‡‡	13	12	14	16	14	13	16	17	18	15	14	11
†The base sample consists of women who remained in the sample between the first quarter and the subsequent quarter. ‡Newly enrolled women are those who were not in the base sample in the first quarter, but who joined the study group in a subsequent quarter. §The new acceptance rate is the number of women who initiated contraceptive use in a particular quarter divided by the total number of contraceptive users in that quarter. ††The contraceptive dropout rate is calculated by taking the number of contraceptive users in the previous quarter for whom there is information in a given quarter, subtracting the number of users from the preceding quarter who are continuing users and then dividing the result by the number of users in the previous quarter included in the given quarter. ‡‡Other includes traditional methods and supplies obtained from neighbors.

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Table 2. Percentage distribution of all urban women and of urban women who obtained family planning services from clinics and pharmacies or shops, by socioeconomic characteristics, Oct.-Dec. 1998
Characteristic	Total	Obtained from clinic/pharmacy/shop
Characteristic	(N=5,445)	(N=2,714)
Education (in years)
0	45	44
1-5	27	35**
>=6	28	21
Residence
Slum	38	40
Nonslum	62	60
Total	100	100
**Difference is statistically significant at p<.01.

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Table 3. Selected measures of family planning use in a rural area of Bangladesh (Paira), by year and months, before and after change in service delivery policy, 1994-1998
Measure	Before change	After change
	1994	1995			1996			1997			1998
	Sept.-Dec.	Jan.-Apr.	May-Aug.	Sept.-Dec.	Jan.-Apr.	May-Aug.	Sept.-	Jan.-Apr.	May-Aug.	Sept.-Dec.	Jan.-Apr.	May-Aug.	Sept.-Dec.
Contraceptive prevalence rate
Among all currently married women of repro. age	52	56	58	57	57	55	55	58	57	58	57	57	57
Among base sample†	52	56	59	57	57	56	58	63	60	61	60	60	61
Among newly enrolled‡	na	11	17	25	21	25	21	24	26	29	32	33	35
Method mix
Pill	18	19	20	19	19	19	19	21	22	22	22	22	22
Condom	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2
Injectable	10	13	13	14	15	14	14	15	15	15	15	16	16
IUD/implant	4	4	5	5	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4
Sterilization	11	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	12	11	11	11
Traditional method	7	6	6	6	6	5	5	3	3	3	3	2	2
No. of currently married women of reproductive age
Total	485	488	474	469	472	476	487	493	498	503	502	512	515
Base sample†	485	479	468	461	458	460	453	455	448	445	447	445	446
Newly enrolled‡	na	9	6	8	14	16	34	38	50	58	55	67	69
No. of current contraceptive users
Total	253	271	277	266	269	263	270	285	284	290	288	291	295
Continuing	235	236	245	240	246	242	245	251	262	266	266	267	269
New	18	35	32	26	23	21	25	34	22	24	22	24	26
New acceptance rate§
Total	7	13	12	10	9	8	9	12	8	8	8	8	9
Drop-outs
Total number	14	14	20	13	15	17	15	13	13	12	9	10	9
Rate††	6	6	8	5	6	7	6	5	5	4	3	4	3

% distribution of users, by source of method
Clinic	32	33	33	34	34	35	35	35	35	35	35	35	35
Doorstep	43	27	19	19	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pharmacy/shop	10	13	13	11	12	14	15	15	15	14	14	15	15
Cluster spot	na	13	22	24	30	35	35	36	39	42	43	44	44
Other‡‡	15	14	13	12	12	16	15	14	11	9	8	6	6
†The base sample consists of women who remained in the sample between the first study period and the subsequent period. ‡Newly enrolled women are those who were not in the base sample in the first study period, but who joined the study group in a subsequent period. §The new acceptance rate is the number of women who initiated contraceptive use in a particular period divided by the total number of contraceptive users in that period. ††The contraceptive dropout rate is calculated by taking the number of contraceptive users in the previous period for whom there is information in a given period, subtracting the number of contraceptive users from the preceding period who are continuing use and then dividing the result by the number of users in the previous period included in the given period. ‡‡Other includes traditional methods and supplies obtained from neighbors. Note: na=not applicable.

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Table 4. Selected measures of family planning use in a rural area of Bangladesh (Durgapur), by year and months, before and after change in service delivery policy, 1995-1998
Measure	Before change	After change
	1995	1995	1996			1997			1998
	May-Aug.	Sept.-Dec.	Jan.-Apr.	May-Aug.	Sept.-Dec.	Jan.-Apr.	May-Aug.	Sept.-Dec.	Jan.-Apr.	May-Aug.	Sept.-Dec.
Contraceptive prevalence rate
Among all currently married women of repro. age	40	41	42	45	44	46	45	45	45	45	46
Among base sample†	40	42	43	45	44	48	46	46	47	47	47
Among newly enrolled‡	na	13	27	36	25	27	29	31	33	34	36
Method mix
Pill	16	18	19	20	20	20	19	19	20	20	20
Condom	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Injectable	3	4	4	5	5	6	7	8	8	8	9
IUD/implant	2	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	3	3	3
Sterilization	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Traditional method	10	6	5	6	5	6	4	3	3	3	3
No. of currently married women of reproductive age
Total	677	699	657	680	687	720	721	722	721	723	718
Base sample†	677	675	646	669	667	665	662	664	660	661	660
Newly enrolled‡	na	24	11	11	20	55	59	58	61	62	58
No. of current contraceptive users
Total	271	286	279	303	301	331	324	322	327	328	329
Continuing	259	257	252	266	258	286	289	285	293	295	297
New	12	29	27	37	43	45	35	37	34	33	32
New acceptance rate§
Total	4	10	10	12	14	14	11	12	10	10	10
Drop-outs
Total number	13	13	16	16	18	15	11	10	7	8	7
Rate††	5	5	6	6	7	5	4	3	2	3	2
% distribution of users, by source of method
Clinic	38	39	36	37	38	41	43	44	44	45	46
Doorstep	36	17	17	14	12	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pharmacy/shop	9	10	11	11	12	12	12	13	13	13	13
Cluster spot	na	20	22	26	26	30	30	31	32	32	33
Other‡‡	17	14	14	12	12	17	15	12	11	10	8
†The base sample consists of women who remained in the sample between the first study period and the subsequent period. ‡Newly enrolled women are those who were not in the base sample in the first study period, but who joined the study group in a subsequent period. §The new acceptance rate is the number of women who initiated contraceptive use in a particular period divided by the total number of contraceptive users in that period. ††The contraceptive dropout rate is calculated by taking the number of contraceptive users in the previous period for whom there is information in a given period, subtracting the number of contraceptive users from the preceding period who are continuing use and then dividing the result by the number of users in the previous period included in the given period. ‡‡Other includes traditional methods and supplies obtained from neighbors. Note: na=not applicable.

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Table 5. Percentage distribution of all rural women and of rural women who obtained family planning services from cluster spots, by socioeconomic characteristics, according to area of residence, Oct.-Dec. 1998
Characteristic	Paira		Durgapur
	Total	Obtained from cluster spots	Total	Obtained from cluster spots
	(N=515)	(N=131)	(N=718)	(N=110)
Education (in years)
0	46	49	49	42
1-5	36	34	31	42*
>=6	18	17	20	16
Amount of landholding
<50 decimals†	48	40	45	46
51-300 decimals	37	51**	26	45**
>300 decimals	15	9	29	9
Total	100	100	100	100
Difference is statistically significant at p<.05. *Difference is statistically significant at p<.01. †One hundred decimals are equivalent to one acre. (One decimal is 432 square feet.)