Value |
Category |
1 |
FEMALE STERILIZATION (Women can have an operation to avoid having any more children.) |
2 |
MALE STERILIZATION (Men can have an operation to avoid having any more children.) |
3 |
PILL (Women can take a pill every day to avoid becoming pregnant) |
4 |
IUD (Women can have a loop or coil placed inside them by a doctor or a nurse) |
5 |
INJECTABLES (Women can have an injection by a health provider that stops them from becoming pregnant for one or more months) |
6 |
IMPLANTS (Women can have several small rods placed in their upper arm by a doctor or nurse which can prevent pregnancy for one or more years) |
7 |
CONDOM (Men can put a rubber sheath on their penis before sexual intercourse) |
8 |
FEMALE CONDOM (Women can place a sheath in their vagina before sexual intercourse) |
9 |
LACTATIONAL AMENORRHEA METHOD (Women delay the onset of their menstrual periods after childbirth by breast feeding their newborn babies exclusively) |
10 |
RHYTHM METHOD (Every month that a woman is sexually active she can avoid pregnancy by not having sexual intercourse on the days of the month she is most likely to get pregnant) |
11 |
WITHDRAWAL (Men can be careful and pull out before climax) |
12 |
MOON BEADS ( As a protective measure women use a collection of specially colored beads secured by a strong cord to monitor their cycle so as to avoid pregnancy by not having sexual intercourse on the days of the month she is most likely to get pregnant) |
13 |
FOAM/JELLY ( Women place special foam tablets or jelly in the vagina before sexual intercourse) |
14 |
EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION (Women can take pills up to five days after sexual intercourse as a one-time method if unprotected sex has occurred to avoid becoming pregnant) |
15 |
Other, Specify |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.