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The Government Responds

Figure 3.

Contraceptive Method Mix by

One of the challenges facing Peru

User Characteristics: 1996

Sterilization

during the coming years will be

Other modern

that of expanding access to family

Traditional

Residence

planning and other reproductive

Lima

health services for poor, less edu-

Other large urban

cated, and rural underserved popu-

Other urban

lations. The government recently

Rural

reversed a policy, in place since

Female educational attainment

1996, of setting targets for steril-

None

izations. Its stated commitment

Primary

now is to a goal of ensuring that

Secondary

women have information and coun-

Higher

seling to achieve their individual

desires with respect to spacing and

Percent of married women ages 15-49

number of children.

Source: ENDES 1996.

References

Instituto Nacional de Estadística e

Figure 4.

Informática (INEI). 1993. Peru:

Unmet Need for Family Planning: 1996

Crecimiento y Distribución de la

Spacing

Población (Análisis de Cifras

Limiting

Residence

Preliminares) . Censos Nacionales

Lima

1993 series. Lima.

Other urban

Rural

Instituto Nacional de Estadística e

Female educational attainment

Informática and Macro International,

None

Inc. 1997. Encuesta Demográfica y

Primary

de Salud Familiar 1996 . (ENDES

Secondary

1996). Columbia, MD.

Higher

Instituto Nacional de Estadística e

Informática, Associacion Benefica

Percent of married women ages 15-49

PRISMA, and Macro International,

Source: ENDES 1996.

Inc. 1992. Encuesta Demográfica y

de Salud Familiar 1991/1992 .

(ENDES 1991/1992). Columbia, MD.

one child more than the number they

was 16 minutes for urban resi-

desired in 1996 (ENDES 1996:

dents compared with about an

The International Programs Center

Tables 3.1, 6.9, 7.5).

hour for rural residents (ENDES

(IPC) collects, assesses, and ana-

1991/92: Table 4.12).

lyzes population and related statis-

One in 8 married women said she

tics from all countries. Based on

wanted to limit or space future

Information on the use of induced

these data, IPC produces the demo-

births, but was not using a method

abortion provides additional evi-

graphic estimates and projections

of family planning in 1996. The per-

dence of unmet need. Peruvian

used in this series of reports. This

centage of married women in this

health officials have been cited as in-

report was prepared with the sup-

situation, deemed to have unmet

dicating that as many as 1 in every 3

port of the U.S. Agency for Interna-

need for family planning, was higher

pregnancies in the country is termi-

tional Development. More detailed

in rural areas (20 percent) than in ur-

nated through induced abortion ( The

information is available from the In-

ban areas (9 percent). The percent-

Washington Post , 11/10/95:A24).

ternational Programs Center, Popu-

age was also higher for less edu-

And abortion is considered one of

lation Division, Bureau of the Cen-

cated women than for women with a

the leading causes of maternal mor-

sus, Washington, D.C. 20233-8860.

secondary education (Figure 4).

tality in Peru. The government and

proponents of its population policy

Part of the problem stems from

say that greater access to contra-

limited access to family planning

ceptive services is required to re-

services. In 1991, median travel

duce both unwanted pregnancies

time to the nearest source of a

and abortions.

modern method of contraception

U.S. Census Bureau

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