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Contraceptive Use Among Filipino Women (Based from the Results of the 2011 Family Health Survey)

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The 2011 Family Health Survey (FHS) provides information on key family planning indicators including the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR), contraceptive method mix, and contraceptive users by background characteristics such as age, education and…
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Urban Women Bear Less Children in Their Lifetime Than Rural Women (Results from the 2011 Family Health Survey )

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The total fertility rate (TFR) of women in urban areas averages at 2.7 children per woman (Table 1). The figure was lower than the average of 3.6 children per woman for those in rural areas. TFR is interpreted as the number of births a woman could…
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Death among Children Under Five Years of Age Continues to Decline (Results from the 2011 Family Health Survey)

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An estimated 30 children for every 1,000 live births in the Philippines will likely die before reaching age five. The said estimated under-five mortality rate (U-5MR) or the probability of a child born on a specified year and dying before reaching…
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Women in Poor Households Are Less Likely To Practice Family Planning (Results from the 2011 Family Health Survey)

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Use of family planning (FP) method is lower among women in poor households than those in non-poor households (43.1 percent versus 51.3 percent), according to the results of the 2011 Family Health Survey (FHS). The difference is mainly due to the…
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Unmet Need for Family Planning Remains High (Results from the 2011 Family Health Survey)

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The 2011 Family Health Survey (FHS) results reveal that unmet need for family planning (FP) among married women in the Philippines remains high at 19.3 percent, 10.5 percent for birth spacing and 8.8 percent for limiting births. In the 2006 Family…
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