Unmet contraceptive need varies by age and family size among Syrian refugees in Türkiye

Researchers used data from the 2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey Syrian Migrant Sample to assess factors associated with unmet need for modern contraceptive methods among Syrian refugee women in Türkiye. They applied logistic and multinomial logistic regression models to examine unmet need overall and separately for spacing and limiting births. The supplied article text does not report the sample size.

Women aged 45–49 were 47.4 percentage points less likely to have unmet need for spacing, but 46 points more likely to have unmet need for limiting, than the comparison group. Compared with women with 0–2 children, those with five or more were 26.7 points less likely to have unmet need for spacing and 14.8 points more likely to have unmet need for limiting. Having a male child was associated with a 16.5-point lower probability of unmet need for spacing. Women in the third and fourth socioeconomic quintiles had lower unmet need for limiting than those in the lowest quintile, by 15.8 and 11 points, respectively.

The findings suggest that contraceptive needs in this population vary across demographic and socioeconomic groups. They are based on secondary, observational survey data from 2018 and describe associations, not causal effects; the study supports attention to diverse needs but does not establish the impact of any service intervention.