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Table 7.7 Use of social marketing brand pills and condoms Percentage of current pill and condom users age 15-49 using a social marketing
brand, by background characteristics, Afghanistan 2015 Among pill users
Among condom users
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Background characteristic
Percentage using Khoshi
Number of women using
the pill Percentage
using Aramesh or
Asodagi Number of
women using condoms
Age
15-19 77.9
45 13
20-24 75.4
376 92.2
150 25-29
70.2 454
71.4 165
30-34 71.8
345 86.3
105 35-39
73.1 289
88.1 118
40-44 76.9
192 80.0
38 45-49
57.7 136
95.7 59
Residence
Urban 73.3
583 87.6
324 Rural
71.4 1,254
81.2 326
Education
No education 73.0
1,516 81.6
401 Primary
73.1 145
88.0 88
Secondary 64.6
160 86.4
115 More than secondary
16 96.4
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Wealth quintile
Lowest 73.3
308 76.1
66 Second
71.6 301
87.7 68
Middle 72.8
308 80.3
77 Fourth
71.5 394
81.2 147
Highest 71.3
526 88.1
291 Total
72.0 1,837
84.4 649
Note: Table excludes pill and condom users who do not know the brand name. Condom use is based on womens reports. Figures in parentheses are based on 25-
49 unweighted cases. An asterisk indicates that a figure is based on fewer than 25 unweighted cases and has been suppressed. As there are too few cases, provincial-
level data are not shown separately.
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Among condom users not also using the pill
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Table 7.8 Informed choice Among current users of selected modern methods age 15-49 who started the last episode of use within the 5
years preceding the survey, the percentage who were informed about possible side effects or problems of that method, the percentage who were informed about what to do if they experienced side effects, and the
percentage who were informed about other methods they could use, by method and initial source, Afghanistan 2015
Among women who started last episode of modern contraceptive method within 5 years preceding the survey:
Methodsource Percentage who
were informed about side effects
or problems of method used
Percentage who were informed
about what to do if they experienced
side effects Percentage who
were informed by a health or family
planning worker of other methods
that could be used Number of women
Method
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Female sterilization 51.2
41.7 50.5
234 Pill
43.7 33.0
56.6 1,776
IUD 66.4