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Table 4 Reasons women with unmet need do not use contraception

From: Modelling strategic interventions in a population with a total fertility rate of 8.3: a cross-sectional study of Idjwi Island, DRC

Reason

Weighted percent

(95% CI)

Breastfeeding/postpartum amenorrhea

21.7

(18.8, 24.6)

Costs too much

20.5

(17.6, 23.4)

Knows no source

18.9

(16.1, 21.6)

Knows no method

18.3

(15.5, 21.0)

Husband opposed

15.9

(13.3, 18.5)

Health concern/fear side effect

15.6

(13.0, 18.1)

Fatalistic

14.0

(11.6, 16.4)

Interferes with body’s processes

7.2

(5.5, 8.9)

No sex/infrequent sex

7.1

(5.3, 8.8)

Lack of access/too far

5.1

(3.4, 6.6)

Menopausal/infecund

4.8

(3.1, 6.4)

Inconvenient to use

4.4

(3.0, 5.7)

Religious prohibition

2.5

(1.4, 3.5)

Other

2.3

(1.2, 3.4)

Not married

2.0

(0.9, 3.0)

Others opposed

1.2

(0.3, 2.0)

Respondent opposed0

1.1

(0.4, 1.7)

Don’t know

0.1

(<0.1, 0.3)

  1. N=1140, missing=260.