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Estimated Modern Use: Employing A Service Statistics-Based Indicator to Monitor Family Planning Programs.
Kristin Bietsch1, Margaret Reeves1, Jessica Williamson1
1Avenir Health, Glastonbury, Connecticut, USA.
Gates Open Research
|October 6, 2025
Summary
Estimated Modern Use (EMU) is a new metric complementing Couple Years of Protection (CYP) for family planning. It uses service statistics for accessible, comparable data on contraceptive use and trends.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Demography
- Health Services Research
Background:
- Couple Years of Protection (CYP) has been the primary metric for family planning program evaluation.
- There was a need for a novel, population-based indicator to complement CYP and improve family planning data analysis.
- Existing service statistics lacked a standardized, population-based metric for cross-country comparisons and trend analysis.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce and describe the Estimated Modern Use (EMU) indicator for family planning.
- To highlight EMU's role in complementing CYP and enhancing the assessment of family planning program scale.
- To detail the methodology and data quality aspects of the SS-to-EMU tool used for EMU calculation.
Main Methods:
- Leveraging existing family planning service statistics to calculate EMU.
- Utilizing the SS-to-EMU tool, which incorporates data quality review mechanisms, visualizations, and validated processes.
- Standardizing EMU calculation across countries and projects for routine data integration.
Main Results:
- EMU provides a population-based proportional metric for family planning use.
- The SS-to-EMU tool enhances data reliability and utility for decision-making.
- EMU is integrated into global initiatives like FP2030 and informs the Family Planning Estimation Tool (FPET).
Conclusions:
- EMU is a valuable, accessible, and interpretable metric for monitoring contraceptive use.
- Its adoption facilitates cross-country comparisons and temporal trend analysis in family planning.
- Ongoing refinements ensure EMU's continued accuracy and utility as a supplementary data source.
Keywords:
Estimated Modern Use (EMU)HMIScontraceptive use indicatorfamily planningprogram monitoringroutine service statisticsMore Related Videos
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