Table 3.

Percentage of married women with unmet need for family planning reported the cause of not using any family planning method as “lack of access”, separated by urban/rural area and by wealth index, India 1992‐93 to 2015‐16

Wealth Index	1992‐93		1998‐99		2005‐06		2015‐16
	Urban	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban	Rural
Poorest	‐	0.5	‐	1.1	<0.1	1.2	<0.1	0.4
Poorer	1.6	0.2	0.7	1.4	‐	1.3	0.3	0.5
Middle	1.4	0.1	‐	0.4	0.5	0.5	1.2	0.8
Richer	0.2	‐	0.2	0.2	1.4	0.8	0.9	0.9
Richest	0.1	0.6	0.1	0.2	0.3	<0.1	0.4	0.7