THE Report into the 2015 Demographic and Health Survey (SIDHS) found that more women have no intention to use any family planning method in the future.

The survey states a group of 2,887 women were included in this survey.

A data shows that out of every ten currently married women, five (51%) percent of women have no intention to use any family planning method in the future, four (37%) intend to use any method in the future, and one is unsure of their future intension to any methods (10%).

“About 42 percent of one child intend to use the method in the future and drops to 29 percent when women have four or more children.”

It adds that the proportion of women who do not intend to use any contraceptive method in the future increases with the increasing number of children a woman has, and by the time these women have four or more children, 59 percent have no future intension to use any family planning method.

“It should be realized though that respondents may or may not adhere to their intention for the future.”

The survey interviewed currently married women who were not using any contraceptive method in the future, according to their number of living children.

It noted that the intention to use contraception in the future provides a forecast of potential demand for services, and acts as a convenient summary indicator of disposition toward contraception among current non-users.