WOMEN

EMPOWERMENT (based on the results of

the 2017 National Demographic and Health Survey)

Control No. 21SSSS04-12

WOMEN AND MARRIAGE * *

First menstruation OWNERSHIP
The age of women in
years who experienced:

86% 22%
13
(mean) **
First birth (alone or jointly)Own 37
** (median)
Land (alone or jointly) months
21 b
DECISION MAKING
Birth intervals
Have and Use a Mobile
23 24
(median)
Phone How the wife's
Have and Use a Bank earnings are being
Account FAMILY used (currently married
Diary women aged 15-49 years old)
First sexual intercourse PLANNING
(median)

32% 12% 40%

a,**
First marriage
(median) Own House

of currently married women modern methods of 54% 43%

aged 15-49 who are using contraception
c
3%

Main source of contraceptive Decide with their own

56% modern method husband Husband only
Public Sector Decide on their

d
Employment and earnings
Median cost of modern
contraceptive methods: 58% of currently married women

survey. (75%)
Female 150 150
Sterilization IUD
100 aged 15-49 years were The majority of those
Injectables PRIVATE SECTOR 11,606 employed in the 12 employed are paid in
PUBLIC SECTOR 4,948
350 months before the
cash only.
Implants Pills married women
99 40 300 45 85 % aged 15-49
of currently
Male Condom 16 Participate in the decision-making
19

87
regarding their own healthcare,
CAN SAY "NO" major

% to their husband if they do not want to

have sexual intercourse.
 (among currently married women household purchases and visits to their
aged 15-49 years old) family or relatives.
Footnotes:

* - The respondents for these questions are women aged 15–49 years.
** -The respondents for these questions are women aged 25–49 years.
a - The age at first marriage is defined as the age at which the respondent began living with her first spouse/partner. b - First-order births
are excluded. The interval for multiple births is the number of months since the preceding pregnancy that ended in a live birth.
c - Modern methods include male and female sterilization, injectables, intrauterine devices (IUDs) contraceptive pills, implants, the patch,
female and male condoms. emergency contraception, the standard days method (SDM), mucus/billings/ovulation, basal body temperature,
symptothermal and the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM).
d - Median cost is based only on the respondents who reported a cost.
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