FIGURE 2.

Potential magnitude of reclassifying Kenyan women dissatisfied with their current method as having “unmet need”NOTE: Projections are based on a total Kenyan female population of reproductive age of 13.7 million. Using PMA2020 Round 7 indicators for Kenya, we assume a modern contraceptive prevalence rate in this group of 44.6% and unmet need for any contraception (modern or traditional) of 11.5%. Number of current modern method users dissatisfied with their method was calculated by multiplying the total estimated population of modern method users (44.6% of 13.7 million women) by our estimated prevalence of method dissatisfaction (6.6% using the narrow and 18.9% using the broad definition). This produces estimates of approximately 400,000 dissatisfied (or 3% of the total reproductive age female population) using the narrow and 1.2 million dissatisfied (8%) using our broad definition of method dissatisfaction which would be added to the current 11.5% of women with unmet need. We estimate method dissatisfaction among modern contraceptive users only, which means that revised estimates of unmet need may be even higher if dissatisfaction among traditional method users were incorporated.