Validation Data for: Demand for family planning satisfied through modern methods of contraception

This dataset contains data from household surveys conducted with women in Argentina, Ghana, and India to validate the construct of "Demand for family planning satisfied through modern methods of contraception."

Metadata
Demand for family planning satisfied through modern methods of contraception

Definition
Percentage of women of reproductive age (15−49 years) who have their need for family planning satisfied with modern methods

Numerator: Number of women of reproductive age (15 – 49 years) who have their need for family planning satisfied with modern methods

Denominator: Total number of women of reproductive age (15–49 years) in need of family planning
Disaggregator(s)
• Wealth
• Age
• Education
• Residence

Data Source
• MICS
• DHS
• RHS
• Other national surveys

Indicator Reference
Countdown to 2030

Construct for Validation
Women’s self-identified satisfaction of demand for family planning through a modern method of contraception; search for convergent validity comparing women’s subjective perception of satisfaction with family planning method, with an estimation of the concept derived via a constructed measure.

Validation Question(s)
1. How does a direct measure of demand satisfaction for family planning (woman’s self-report) compare to the assigned result provided by the DHS algorithm derived from the responses to the series of questions used to calculate the indicator (same woman surveyed) (construct validity)?

2. How does the value of the indicator vary based on a new data source/estimation method compared to an established source/method?

II. Study Aims
This study aims to validate the DHS algorithm used to determine demand for family planning satisfied by comparing the results of the derived measure for a sample of women to the gold standard of those women’s own subjective perceptions as to whether their demand for family planning was actually satisfied.