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No. 81, 1995 Mensch, Barbara S., Mary Arends-Kuenning, Anrudh Jain, and María Rosa Gárate. "Meeting reproductive goals: The impact of the quality of family planning services on unintended pregnancy in Peru," Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 81. New York: Population Council. Abstract Through linkage of three data sets from Peru, the 1991–92 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), a 1994 follow-up of a subsample of the DHS population, and the 1992 Situation Analysis, this paper investigates the impact of the quality of family planning services on the ability of women in two regions of the country to achieve their reproductive intentions over a period of nearly two and one-half years. Although problems were encountered with reinterviewing the same women, questions measuring reproductive intentions seem to generate consistent answers. Nearly one-fifth of the women in the follow-up sample were estimated to have had an unintended pregnancy during the interval under analysis. While separating the effect of region of residence from the effect of quality of care is difficult, quality apparently has a significant impact in reducing the number of unwanted births, and it does so net of potentially confounding variables. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
