TABLE 3. Equity in Access to Family Planning Through Marie Stopes International Social Franchising Programs in Selected Countries, 2013.
Equity Domain | %, (95% CI) |
Age of clients | |
15–19 years | 5.0 (3.9, 6.1) |
15–24 years | 26.1 (23.8, 28.4) |
Poverty level of clientsa | |
Living on under US$1.25/day | 15.1 (13.8, 16.4) |
Living on under US$2.50/day | 57.4 (54.9, 60.0) |
Family planning adoptersb | |
Newly adopted a modern contraceptive method | 40.7 (37.4, 44.0) |
Data are based on client exit interviews in 14 countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Vietnam), except for the “poverty” indicator, which excludes results from Madagascar and Nigeria because they used non-comparable measures of poverty than the other 12 countries.
Measured using the Progress out of Poverty Index (PPI).13
Defined as modern contraceptive method clients who had not been using a modern method during the 3 months prior to their visit.