TABLES: Accessibility and Use of Contraceptives in Vietnam

	International Family Planning Perspectives Volume 28, Number 4, December 2002
	Accessibility and Use of Contraceptives in Vietnam TABLES

TABLE 1. Percentage distribution of currently married Vietnamese women, by distance to facility-based family planning provider, current method use and need for contraception, by urban or rural residence and type of province
Distance, use and need	All (N=5,310)	Residence		Province
		Urban	Rural	Project	Nonproject
		(N=996)	(N=4,344)	(N=1,602)	(N=3,738)
Distance
<1 km	72.8	94.5	67.8	60.2	78.1
>1 km	27.2	5.5	32.2	39.8	21.9
Current use
Modern	55.8	54.0	56.2	56.1	55.7
Traditional	19.5	25.4	18.2	21.0	18.9
None	75.3	79.4	74.4	77.1	73.6
Need for contraception
Unmet	8.2	7.2	8.5	7.6	8.5
For limiting	4.2	4.1	4.2	3.9	4.3
For spacing	4.0	3.1	4.3	3.7	4.2
Met	91.8	92.8	91.5	92.4	91.5
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Sources: Distance and current method use--reference 3. Need for contraception--reference 6.

TABLE 2. Percentage of currently married Vietnamese women who lived within one kilometer of a source of specific family planning methods, and percentage using those methods, by area of residence, 1997 Vietnam Demographic and Health Survey (VNDHS)
Method	Urban		Rural
Method	Access	Use	Access	Use
Pill	85.3	4.1	39.3	4.4
Condom	93.3	11.8	46.9	4.5
Injectable	39.8	0.0	7.6	0.2
IUD	82.4	32.5	54.8	39.9
Tubal ster.	56.3	5.3	11.4	6.6

TABLE 3. Percentage of currently married women with a source of family planning services less than one kilometer away, by type of source, and mean number of nearby sources; all according to urban-rural residence, type of province and type of community, 1997, VNDHS
Type of source	Total (N=5,310)	Residence		Province		Community
		Urban	Rural	Project	Nonproject	Remote	Near
		(N=996)	(N=4,314)	(N=1,571)	(N=3,739)	(N=1,053)	(N=4,257)
Nearby source
Any	84.2	100.0	80.3	89.3	82.0	69.1	87.8
Commune health clinic	55.3	87.9	47.0	59.7	52.7	15.1	81.4
Drugstore	47.1	84.3	37.5	35.1	51.7	33.6	50.1
Mobile team	8.8	7.5	9.1	19.4	3.9	6.0	9.5
Program worker	27.4	36.8	25.4	30.4	26.6	25.6	28.0
Health worker	39.7	41.9	39.4	46.4	36.7	33.6	41.1
Private doctor	16.9	47.2	9.5	11.8	18.7	0.0	20.8
Others	21.3	65.5	10.2	16.3	23.4	7.5	24.5
Source-mix index*	2.17	3.72	1.76	2.15	2.14	1.28	2.37
*The maximum mean number of sources is seven.

TABLE 4. Odds ratios from regression analysis showing impact of access to any source of services on selected measures of contraceptive use and nonuse among currently married women (N=5,310), according to selected characteristics
Characteristic	Current use of modern method	Nonuse of modern method	Current use of traditional method
Access to any source of family planning	1.08	0.59***	0.64**
Age
<20 (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
20-24	1.78	0.60	0.58
25-29	2.02*	0.33*	0.35*
30-34	2.17*	0.19***	0.21***
35-39	1.36	0.12***	0.16***
40-44	1.15	0.12***	0.15***
45-49	0.63	0.11***	0.14***
Education
No schooling (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Incomplete primary	1.23	0.53*	0.56*
Complete primary	1.43*	0.46**	0.47**
Complete lower secondary	2.20***	0.28***	0.27***
>=complete secondary	2.07***	0.34***	0.34***
Number of children
0	0.03***	4.22***	9.95***
1	0.68***	1.03	1.10
2 (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
3-5	1.27**	1.32	1.27
>=6	1.53***	1.63*	1.43
Intercept *	-.5810	-.0037	.1386
p <.05. p<.01. *p<.001. Note:* The model examines women's access to any fixed service points not more than 1 km away from the community or to community workers who make home visits at least once every two weeks. ref= reference group.

TABLE 5. Odds ratios from regression analysis showing impact of source-mix index on selected measures of contraceptive use and nonuse among currently married women (N=5,310), according to selected characteristics
Characteristic	Current use of modern method	Nonuse of modern method	Current use of modern method
Source-mix index	1.03	0.89*	0.90*
Age
<20 (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
20-24	1.77	0.55	0.54
25-29	1.97*	0.33**	0.35*
30-34	2.13*	0.19***	0.21***
35-39	1.33	0.12***	0.15***
40-44	1.13	0.12***	0.15***
45-49	0.62	0.12***	0.15***
Education
No schooling (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Incomplete primary	1.29	0.49**	0.53**
Complete primary	1.50**	0.43***	0.45***
Complete lower secondary	2.29***	0.27***	0.27***
>=complete
>=complete secondary	2.12***	0.34***	0.34***
Number of children
0	0.03***	4.12***	10.05***
1	0.67***	1.03	1.10
2 (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
3-5	1.27**	1.31	1.25
>=6	1.54***	1.60*	1.40
Intercept *	-.6221	-.0997	.1325
p<.05. p<.01. *p<.001. Notes:* The model examines women's access to fixed service points not more than 1 km away from the community or to community workers who make home visits at least once every two weeks. ref= reference group.