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How can we use modern health information to improve women’s health?

Contraception use in Indonesia: socio-economic aspects, education and religion have an impact on better health awareness

Based on a subset of the 1987 National Indonesia Contraceptive Prevalence Survey

Ewelina Swend

Warsaw, 05.08.2018

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Contraceptive method used depending on level of education

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  • Men generally better educated
  • Marriages more or less equally educated
  • Usage of contraception depends more on the wife’s level of education (better educated woman = higher contraception use)

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Number of children and contraceptive method vs. women’s age

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  • The older the wife, the more children she has (children oriented politics in the past)
  • Until the age of 24 majority does not use contraception
  • Short term has a very stable share among young women (accessible)
  • After 45 years old a vast majority does not use any contraception (menopause)
  • Long term gets more popular with age (already enough children, high cost of the method)

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Number of children vs. contraceptive method used

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  • Almost a half of Indonesian women do not use contraception (religious beliefs, children oriented politics in the country)
  • Similar distribution in small and large families with over a half of “no use”
  • Almost 70% of women in medium sized families use contraception, with a high share (29%) of long term

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Contraceptive method and level of education depending on religion

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  • Significantly different share of ‘no use’ (higher by 10%) and long term (smaller by 14%) among Muslim wives due to religious beliefs
  • Similar share of short term contraception

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  • Muslim women with a significantly smaller access to education - only 35% with a high level, in comparison with 65% of not Muslim
  • 89% of non Muslim women have at least medium level of education

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Works Cited Slide

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  • Tjen-Sien Lim, Contraceptive Method Choice Dataset; 08/04/18 accessed; https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Contraceptive+Method+Choice
  • Ewelina Swend, Contraception use in Indonesia; 08/05/18 accessed; https://public.tableau.com/views/ContraceptionuseinIndonesia/Dashboard1?:embed=y&:display_count=yes&publish=yes
  • Ewelina Swend, Contraception use in Indonesian families; 08/05/18 accessed; https://public.tableau.com/views/ContraceptionuseinIndonesianfamilies/Dashboard2?:embed=y&:display_count=yes&publish=yes
  • Ewelina Swend, Contraception use and education level depending on religion in Indonesia; 08/05/18 accessed; https://public.tableau.com/views/ContraceptionuseandeducationleveldependingonreligioninIndonesia/Dashboard3?:embed=y&:display_count=yes&publish=yes

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