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Definition :

The number of fecund women who are married or in consensual unions, and who either do not want any more children or want to delay the next child, but are not using any method of family planning expressed as a percentage of all women who are married or in a consensual union
Notes:
This is indicator no. 5.6 in the official UNSD list of MDG indicators and is also one fo the indicators currently being monitored in the Philippines

Formula
Unmet need for family planning (%)
Source :

United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), 2011

PSA Board Resolution :
PSA Board Resolution No. 01, Series of 2017 - 182
Statistical Activity