This summary volume on the background to the administration of the 1993 Contraceptive Prevalence Survey in Jamaica provided descriptions of the country, population policies and programs, survey objectives, sample and questionnaire design, field work, response rate, and characteristics of the survey population. Survey characteristics included age, education, religion, economic activity, residence, children ever born, marital and union status, union history, and a socioeconomic index. Appendices included sampling errors, socioeconomic index methodology, questionnaires, and a report on the National Dissemination Seminar. The survey was sponsored by the National Family Planning Board and the US Agency for International Development. A two-stage stratified sample of geographic areas and dwellings was adopted from the Continuous Social and Demographic Surveys in Jamaica. Sampling accounted for the maldistribution in health regions. There were four survey instruments: a household questionnaire and an individual questionnaire, each for males and females. Individual questionnaires included questions that were comparable to the 1975/76 Jamaica Fertility Survey, the 1983 and 1989 Contraceptive Prevalence Surveys, and the 1987 Young Reproductive Health Survey. Major topics of both household and individual questionnaires included respondents' background, union status and partnership, fertility or reproductive history, family planning, attitudes toward contraception and sexuality, young adult module, current sexuality, and knowledge of AIDS and its transmission. The fieldwork was organized by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica. Individual female response rates were 81.9%, which was lower than the 94.6% rate in 1989. The refusal rate increased from 2.2% to 7.0%. For male respondents, the refusal rate was 6.7%. The questionnaire completion rate was 80.0%, a decline from 95.7% in 1989. The age distribution was unaffected by the completion rate declines. The refusal and completion rates were affected by a general election and unseasonably heavy rains. National results were weighted to account for differences in nonresponse. - See more at: http://www.popline.org/node/288918#sthash.7Tycrqqy.dpuf