Contraceptive use in Indonesia

Samosir, Omas Bulan (1994) Contraceptive use in Indonesia. University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.

Abstract

Many studies have been conducted to investigate contraceptive use behaviour. These include the analysis of factors influencing current use and contraceptive use for an observed period. The latter has been termed the study of contraceptive use dynamics which includes contraceptive method discontinuation, failure and switching. These studies have benefited from surveys which collected a contraceptive use history of the respondents either during their married lives or for several years before the survey.

This thesis investigates all aspects of contraceptive use in Indonesia. The analysis of contraceptive use dynamics is only focused on contraceptive switching. Since a woman might use more than one method of contraception during her reproductive period, she can contribute more than one contraceptive use interval to the data. Some studies of contraceptive switching have used statistical techniques which assume independence between switching but this assumption can be violated because the likelihood of switching might be correlated. Hence contraceptive switching varies not only across groups of contraceptive users but also across contraceptive users with the same socio-economic characteristics. Hence the consequences of this contraceptive users' effect for the relationship between socio-economic, demographic and contraceptive-related characteristics of users and contraceptive switching in Indonesia is also analysed through the use of random-effects logistic models. The data used for all analyses are from the 1987 National Indonesia Contraceptive Prevalence Survey and the 1991 Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey.

The findings confirm the results of previous studies that a number of socio-economic and demographic factors influence the likelihood of using, choosing and switching contraception. Among these factors, contraceptive-related factors such as the method being used before switching, the duration of use when switching and the reason for switching, affect contraceptive switching most. (DX184,268)

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