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Originally Posted by sera300
In another post Brandye states it's drawn upon empirical data & the WHO reports.
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Empirical data would still have a "source" though. I am curious as to what it was. The source used most (in the US, anyway) is
Contraceptive Technology, which is the handbook used in the vast majority of OB-GYN courses in medical schools here.
http://www.contraceptivetechnology.com/table.html
The figures there are far lower than they are as presented by Brandye, so I am curious as to what her source(s) is/are.
If the WHO report is the one I think it is, those were global figures and include third world countries where access to contraception and instruction in its use are not exactly on the same level we have in the first world. And therefore would have little practical relevance to any discussion with people using the Net to figure out what method to use.
Anyway, I was just curious as to what the sources were for her figures.