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  • Title: Majority of Filipino women do not want any more children.
    Journal: Newsl Macro Syst Inst Resour Dev Demogr Health Surv; 1995; 7(1):9. PubMed ID: 12319378.
    Abstract:
    The 1993 National Demographic Survey for the Philippines was conducted by the National Statistics Office and included a national sample of 15,029 women aged 15-49. Survey data indicate that a large proportion of Filipino women have achieved their childbearing goals and do not want to have any more children. Indeed, 51% of currently married women report not wanting to have any more children, 12% are sterilized, 19% want to delay the birth of their next child at least two years, and 9% want to have another child within two years. The majority of Filipinos approve of family planning and 86% of women think it is acceptable for family planning messages to be broadcast on radio and television. Despite almost universal knowledge of family planning in the Philippines, however, only 40% of currently married women are using a method of family planning; 25% modern methods. Female sterilization used by 12% is the most popular method, followed by the pill among 9%, natural family planning at 7%, and withdrawal at 7%. More than 25% of married women have an unmet need for family planning, with need highest among rural women and women who have elementary school education or less. The level of contraceptive use would approach 70% if all women in need of family planning were to use contraception. The Philippines 4.1 rate of total fertility is one of the highest in Southeast Asia despite moderate declines over the past two decades due largely to the increased use of family planning. Rural women have an average of 1.3 children more than urban women, women in Bicol have an average of three children more than women in metro Manila, and women with no education typically have one child more than women with college education. Finally, considerable progress has been made in maternal and child health, with declining infant and under-five mortality, and 72% of children aged 12-23 months having received all recommended vaccinations. 83% of women receive antenatal care and 53% of births occur with assistance from a physician, nurse, or midwife even though the majority of births take place at home.
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