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Women making their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care

Proportion of women ages 15-49 years (married or in union) who make their own decision on all three selected areas i.e. can say no to sexual intercourse with their husband or partner if they do not want; decide on use of contraception; and decide on their own health care. Only women who provide a “yes” answer to all three components are considered as women who “make her own decisions regarding sexual and reproductive”.

Coverage
81 of 238 countries
Latest data
2024
Series
81
Unit
percent
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-07
Indicator
women-making-their-own-informed-decisions-regarding-sexual
Interva ID
worldbank-women-making-their-own-informed-decisions-regarding-sexual

Recency

current

data to 2024; catalog to 2025

Provenance

2 steps

as the publisher declares it

Versions

1

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.

Recency

100%

Latest observation is 2024; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 1 year(s) behind (current).

Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.

Temporal completeness

100%

37 of 81 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% of its years.

Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.

Geographic coverage

Measured

Covers 81 of the 238 countries in the catalog.

Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.

History depth

Measured

The median series has 1 observations; the earliest begins in 2006.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.

Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.

Schema conformity

Not assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.

2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-08.

By country

Women making their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care for each of the 81 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Kazakhstan202472.90percent
Lesotho202468.60percent
Malawi202442.30percent
Nigeria202428.80percent
Zambia202450.20percent
Angola202343.30percent
Austria202396.10percent
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the202324.10percent
Croatia202395.40percent
France202395.80percent

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    United Nations

    Demographic and Health Surveys compiled by United Nations Population Fund, United Nations (UN), uri: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/UNSDGAPIV5/swagger/index.html, note: Indicator code from the original source: SH_FPL_INFM; Indicator name from the original source: Proportion of women aged 15–49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care, publisher: UN Statistics Division, type: API, date accessed: 2026-06-17, date published: 2026-03-27

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Versions

A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.

  • CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded

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Citation

Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-07. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

World Bank (2026). Women making their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-women-making-their-own-informed-decisions-regarding-sexual (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-women-making-their-own-informed-decisions-regarding-sexual,
  title        = {Women making their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-women-making-their-own-informed-decisions-regarding-sexual}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-women-making-their-own-informed-decisions-regarding-sexual; catalog snapshot 2026-11-07},
  urldate      = {2026-11-08}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

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