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Table 1 Proportion of women with met and unmet need for spacing and limiting, by marital status, Mexico 2014

From: Factors associated with unmet need for contraception in Mexico: evidence from the National Survey of Demographic Dynamics 2014

 

Currently in union

Never in union sexually active (prev. 3 months)

Use for limiting

Use for spacing

Unmet need for limiting

Unmet need for spacing

Total

Use for limiting

Use for spacing

Unmet need for limiting

Unmet need for spacing

Total

%

%

%

%

n

%

%

%

%

n

Totala

57.4

15.2

6.4

5.1

51,758

19.8

43.8

8.0

20.9

5039

Age group

 15–19

11.7

39.8

6.2

21.9

2307

7.6

46.9

6.7

35.8

921

 20–24

23.9

37.7

6.4

15.4

6065

11.0

55.2

4.6

25.3

1634

 25–29

40.0

27.7

6.5

8.6

7958

16.0

54.2

5.9

17.2

1095

 30–34

58.2

16.0

6.7

3.7

8897

29.0

32.6

9.1

16.3

613

 35–39

71.1

7.3

6.9

1.6

9655

41.1

19.8

18.1

5.5

343

 40–44

76.9

2.6

6.5

0.4

9118

51.8

3.2

21.3

1.6

253

 45–49

74.0

1.0

5.1

0.1

7758

68.3

1.7

15.6

0.6

180

Type of residence

 Rural

50.5

16.6

7.2

6.9

12,568

15.8

34.4

11.2

29.0

393

 Urban

59.6

14.7

6.1

4.5

39,190

20.1

44.6

7.7

20.3

4646

Education

 < 10 years

59.8

12.3

7.1

4.9

33,676

29.4

26.2

12.2

20.4

1356

 10+ years

52.9

20.6

5.0

5.4

18,082

16.3

50.3

6.5

21.1

3683

Region of residence

 Region 1

61.7

13.9

5.8

3.7

3091

20.6

51.6

7.6

15.8

841

 Region 2

58.7

16.0

5.4

4.6

16,808

17.3

40.9

8.0

25.3

1657

 Region 3

57.9

15.0

6.6

4.9

26,440

21.4

44.0

7.8

19.0

2315

 Region 4

48.0

14.2

8.8

8.4

5419

18.1

34.1

10.6

27.4

226

Number of live births

 0

6.1

22.8

4.0

15.7

4294

9.0

51.9

5.7

25.8

3676

 1

20.8

39.2

5.3

10.6

10,058

31.7

32.4

14.7

12.4

774

 2

63.8

13.7

7.3

3.8

15,784

61.8

12.1

16.8

2.9

340

 3 or more

79.9

3.6

6.7

1.4

21,622

83.9

2.8

8.8

0.4

249

Access to Health Services

 No Social Security Health Service

52.9

15.6

7.7

6.6

7494

16.7

45.6

8.6

22.8

1263

 Partial Access Public Health Service

54.7

16.1

7.3

6.1

23,407

25.1

34.8

9.0

22.9

1326

 Full Access Public Health Service

62.3

13.9

5.0

3.5

19,654

19.4

47.2

7.2

18.8

2238

 Private Health Service

58.6

15.7

2.7

2.7

1203

9.0

54.2

6.6

20.8

212

  1. aNote: For the total 100% of women currently in union, women who are infecund and want to have children account for 11.9%. For the total 100% of never in union women who have been sexually active in the previous 3 months, women who are infecund and want to have children account for 7.5%