Reviewer ’s report  
 
Title: Correlates of sexual inactivity and met need for contraceptives among young women in  
Ghana  
 
Version: 2 Date: 06 Jul 2018  
 
Reviewer: Theresa Hoke  
 
Reviewer 's report:  
Nice job on revising the paper!  
 
Please consider the following minor comments as you finalize the paper:  
 
According to Reviewer 2, Machiyama and Cleland wrote: "those who wanted to delay for two 
years or more or wanted no more were two times as likely to report abstinence." Given that, it 
appears there still may be a problem with this text:  
 
p.6 In their analy sis of trends in contraception and  
144 sexual activity in Ghana, Machiyama and Cleland [13] found reduction in coital frequency as  
145 an alternative to contraceptives, as women who desired to space or limit births were twice as  
146 likely as women who wan ted a/another child soon to have had sex in the past four weeks  
 
p.6 Women who had been sexually active for a month or less  
Should this be re -worded as follows: Women who had been sexually active within the past 
month…  
 
p.9 Interestingly, there was a highe r proportion (53.7%) of less  
201 sexually active women aged 18 -19 than their younger 15 -17 year old counterparts (49.1%).  
Should "less sexually active" be reworded as "abstinent"?  
 
p.14 Another limitation is that current abstinence  
330 is measured by sexua l inactivity before the four weeks preceding the survey  
Should this be reworded: "Another limitation is that current abstinence  
is measured by sexual inactivity during the four weeks preceding the survey…" ?  
 
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