NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO. 2767
DATE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 16 September 2011
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO. 29)
Mr D A Kganare (Cope) to ask the Minister of Health:
Whether the qualitative and quantitative data and statistics on the (a)
adolescent fertility rate and (b) unmet need for contraception is available
to help measure the progress of Millennium Development Goal 5 to improve
maternal health; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
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REPLY:
Yes â quantitative data is available.
a) According to data from the South African Demographic and Health
Surveys 1998 and 2003 the adolescent fertility rates (that is births
per 1 000 women of ages 15-19) were:
- 60.3 per 1000 women aged 15-19 in 1998
- 58.4 per 1000 women aged 15-19 in 2003
According to the SADHS 2003, almost 14% of South African women in marital
union have unmet need for family planning as compared to the 15% recorded
in 1998 SADHS and it varies from province to province.
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