Accurate estimates of contraceptive use are critical for monitoring and evaluating family planning programs. Data typically come from various population-based surveys that employ their own questionnaires, thereby limiting wide-scale comparability. Few studies have addressed whether including specific questions, such as contraceptive method awareness questions, has an impact on responses about method use. This study aims to assess whether including contraceptive method awareness questions influences reported current method use differently across sociodemographic characteristics of respondents, based on secondary data analyses of PMA2020 surveys from five countries.
January 1, 2018