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Methods

We use Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data from 6 countries to explore the extent to which women report pregnancies following contraceptive discontinuation as intended and to identify the characteristics of women who report pregnancies following contraceptive failure or discontinuation for non-pregnancy reasons as intended.

Results

We found that relatively high percentages of births are reported as intended following contraceptive failure and discontinuation for non-pregnancy reasons (16–50% for failure and around 40% for discontinuation for reasons other than desire for pregnancy). While there were few consistent patterns in socio-economic factors associated with reporting births following discontinuation and failure as intended, stronger and more consistent associations were found with variables expected to be linked to motivation such as number of living children, reason for …