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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Stud Fam Plann. 2014 Sep;45(3):339–359. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2014.00395.x

Table 3.

Percent of currently married women, wives, husbands and concordant couples with unmet need for family planning, by category of unmet need and country

Country
Spouse and unmet need category Benin 2006 Burkina Faso 2003 Mali 2001
Number of currently married women (n=7,534) (n=4,786) (n=5,899)
Currently married women 100 100 100
    No unmet need 67.5 68.6 69.5
    Spacing 22.4 24.5 23.6
    Limiting 10.1 6.9 6.9
Number of couples (n=1,630) (n=1,073) (n=1,145)
Wives 100 100 100
    No unmet need 76.0 73.1 69.6
    Spacing 16.1 21.1 23.6
    Limiting 7.9 5.8 6.8
Husbands
    No unmet need 79.1 79.7 77.7
    Spacing 14.7 16.4 18.9
    Limiting 6.2 3.9 3.4

Note: Weighted percentages are reported