Replication Data for: "Measurement of Unmet Need for Contraception: A Counterfactual Approach"

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Authors: Mahesh Karra
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Abstract

This replication package reproduces the results for the paper entitled "Measurement of Unmet Need for Contraception: A Counterfactual Approach," which is published in Studies in Family Planning. This package contains the Stata Do-File (.do) that replicates the tables and figures in the main paper. All data that are used for this study are available for free download after registering with the DHS Program at http://dhsprogram.com/data/. The pooled analytic dataset is comprised of Individual Recode (IR) files in Stata format (.dta) for 2,073,523 women from 80 DHS surveys that cover 56 countries from 2010 to 2019. The Stata do file can be modified to run for one or multiple datasets.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Reproductive Health and Contraception Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences Male Reproductive Health Studies

Publication details

Journal / source
Harvard Dataverse
Publication date
25 January 2026
Document type
Dataset