Table 3. Summary of levels of agreement between partners regarding family planning, and awareness of their partner’s views (numbers, and example quotes).

	Concordant views (12)	Discordant views (2)
Aware of partner’s views (8)	Consciously concordant (7) Woman: “now I want to go back to family planning” (NS02, 35 year-old postpartum woman, wife of AL02) Man: “We decided to stop having children” (AL02, 43 year-old man, husband of NS02).	Consciously discordant (1) Woman: “For me I want it [contraception] but for him he does not want it.” (NS23, 19 year-old woman, Pentecostal, wife of AL12) Man: “I discussed it with her when she had gone to the health centre for the immunisation of the baby and they told them about Injectaplan. When she reached home, she told me and found that I didn’t have it in plan.” [meaning his personal plan] (AL12, 23 year old man, Pentecostal, husband of NS23)
Unaware of partner’s views (6)	Unconsciously concordant (5) Woman: “He just wants us to space well, but have more children, and yet for me, I want to stop having children.” (NS03, 35 year-old woman, partner of AL01) Man: “I want to stop having children.” (AL01, 36 year-old man, partner of NS03)	Unconsciously discordant (1) Woman: “He told me to use it but I told him I cannot use it when I only have one child so I don’t know what he will decide?” (NS38, 21 year-old mother of one, and wife of AL19) Man: “She received it well [discussion about family planning], only that we want to go to those big health centres like Bwindi [hospital] because we heard that there is need to first test the blood of a woman to know which method to use so we are waiting for those from Bwindi so that we can enquire from them.” (AL19, 21 year-old husband of NS38)