Ergebnisse einer repräsentativen Umfrage zum Familienplanungsverhalten in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1985

Abstract

A report on the result of a representative survey of family planning behavior in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1985. Interviewers from the EMNID Institute questioned 1267 German women aged between 15 and 45. Of the women interviewed, 6.1% had been sterilized, while in 1.3% of cases, their partner had been sterilized. Regarding the use of reversible methods of contraception, the following figures were established: pill, 37.1%; IUD, 10.3%; condom, 5.9%; rhythm method, 3.9%; withdrawal 3.4%; vaginal diaphragm, 2.1%; mini-pill, 1.3%; locally effective chemical substances, 0.8%. A few women (1.9%) stated that they used a mixture of methods. No information about family planning methods was offered by 13.4% of the women interviewed. The figures obtained were further differentiated according to age, marital status, school education, religion, number of children, desire for more children, profession, and net income. The authors' own questions concerned the early use of contraceptives, the reasons for abandoning a particular method, the reasons for choosing a certain type of contraceptive, sources of information about family planning, the frequency of changes from one type of contraceptive to another, and opinions about the rhythm method. Finally, the result of the EMNID survey is compared with that of known studies both at home and abroad.

Recent trends in contraceptive sterilization in Flanders

“…The ratio male/female sterilization is much higher elsewhere: about 10 in the Netherlands (Central Bureau of Statistics, 1984;Ketting, 1982), 0-83 in Britain (Wellings & Mills, 1984) and 0-73 in the US (Digest, 1985). Although in Canada (Balakrishnan et al, 1985;Marcil-Gratton & Lapierre-Adamcyk, 1983) and in West Germany (Doring et al, 1986) many more women are sterilized than men, the ratios still remain higher than in Flanders (037 and 0-31 respectively compared with 0-24). In France relatively few men choose to be sterilized, mainly as a result of the semi-clandestine character of vasectomy (Arvis, 1986).…”

A survey of contraception in five West European countries

“…In some cases, data sources were quite outdated, as in Italy, where the only available data were those of the 1979 World Fertility Survey (WFS, 1982), and France, where data came from the French National Fertility Survey of 1978 (WFS, 1981;Leridon, 1981;Leridon & Sardon, 1979). More recent data were available for the other countries: the General Household Survey (Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, 1985) for Great Britain; a 1983 Fertility Survey published after completion of our study (Instituto Nacional Estadistica, 1986) for Spain; and a survey by Doring et al (1986) for the Federal Republic of Germany. Moreover, while most available data had been collected for demographic purposes, the present aim was to study the wider behavioural context of contraception, and the enquiry into women's opinions regarding contraceptive methods placed particular emphasis on oral contraception, as this method is widely used, known and discussed.…”

Kontrazeption bei Diabetes mellitus

“…Während im gynäkologischen Fachgebiet die Pille ein geschätztes und verbreitetes Therapeutikum ist [10], wird von internistischer Seite sehr vor der unkritischen Anwendung von oralen Kontrazeptiva (OC) gewarnt. Grundlage für diese Warnung ist eine Häufung von thromboembolischen und ischämischen Erkrankungen auch bei jugendlichen Anwenderinnen, die aus verschiedenen Untersuchungen abgeleitet wird.…”