Assessing regional differences in contraceptive discontinuation, failure and switching in Brazil

Table 5 Twelve-month cumulative probabilities of contraceptive failure, abandonment and switching according to selected episode-level and woman-level variables.

	Failure	Abandonment	Switching	Continuation
Method
Pill	0.0647	0.1341	0.1607	0.6404
Condoms	0.0910	0.0750	0.3761	0.4578
Injections	0.0702	0.1694	0.3881	0.3722
Traditional methods	0.2272	0.0373	0.2962	0.4394
Contraceptive intention
Spacing	0.0724	0.0912	0.2364	0.6000
Limiting	0.0979	0.1123	0.2020	0.5877
Region
North	0.0661	0.1696	0.2293	0.5349
Northeast	0.0965	0.1642	0.2764	0.4628
Southeast	0.0868	0.0782	0.2129	0.6221
South	0.0721	0.0536	0.1428	0.7314
Centre-West	0.0901	0.1014	0.1724	0.6360
Age
≤ 19	0.1112	0.1129	0.2270	0.5489
20–24	0.1006	0.0923	0.2067	0.6004
25–29	0.0802	0.0869	0.2230	0.6100
30–34	0.0843	0.1204	0.2283	0.5694
35+	0.0449	0.1476	0.1822	0.6253
Marital status
Married/living together	0.0957	0.1027	0.2273	0.5743
Other	0.0650	0.1049	0.1831	0.6471
N° of living children
0	0.0928	0.1352	0.2464	0.5255
1	0.0755	0.1023	0.2235	0.5987
2	0.0847	0.0911	0.1956	0.6286
3+	0.1075	0.0782	0.1771	0.6372
Ethnicity
White	0.0767	0.0951	0.2494	0.5789
Other	0.0960	0.1106	0.1902	0.6032
Years of schooling
0–3	0.1022	0.1644	0.1772	0.5562
4–8	0.0951	0.1144	0.2208	0.5696
9–11	0.0742	0.0774	0.2177	0.6308
12+	0.0587	0.0549	0.2550	0.6314
Mass media exposure
Watches TV regularly	0.0865	0.0985	0.2214	0.5937
Does not watch TV	0.0895	0.1820	0.1527	0.5757
Global	0.0869	0.1034	0.2155	0.5942

Source: 1996 Demographic and Health Survey (N = 6027 episodes of use).
Note: Episodes of use of reversible contraceptive methods that began before the five-year calendar period or of sterilization use are not included.

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