Using the DHS wealth index and World Bank poverty thresholds to examine socio-economic position in the Family Planning Market Analyzer

In by Cate Urban

Using the DHS wealth index and World Bank poverty thresholds to examine socio-economic position in the Family Planning Market Analyzer

ORGANIZATION
USAID

YEAR PUBLISHED
2019

DESCRIPTION

The Family Planning (FP) Market Analyzer (fpmarketanalyzer.org) combines data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and FP2020’s projections of modern contraceptive prevalence (mCPR) to allow users to explore potential scenarios as part of a total market approach (TMA), including shifts in market share between the public and private health sector. An important consideration when thinking about the potential roles of the public and private sectors in a family planning market is a women’s ability to pay for products and services from private providers. The FP Market Analyzer allows further exploration of changes by income level using a methodology that combines analyses of absolute wealth with DHS data.