Reviewer’s report
Title:  Unmet need for family planning and associated factors among currently married reproductive
age women in Tiro Afeta District, South West Ethiopia, 2017: Cross sectional study
Version: 2 Date: 07 May 2018
Reviewer: Susan B. Moskosky
Reviewer's report:
Interesting study and manuscript that will benefit from some editing for language and for clarity.
Page 4, line 14:  Family Planning alone can only potentially "help" to reduce maternal deaths -- this
should be clearer
Page 4,lines 50 - 56:  What about high levels of unmet need related to other factors, such as cultural
and/or religious factors?
Page 5, lines 6 -8: It would be helpful  if the author would identify the reduction of unmet need for FP
in Ethiopia from ???? to 10% by the end of 2020. It identifies the rate later on, but it would be helpful
here.
Page 7, lines 46 -51: The sentence "The prevalence of unmet need gives the largest sample size than
factors associated with unmet need for family planning" is not clear -- please clarify what is intended
here.
Page 12, line 23:  Please clarify whether 'abortion' includes both induced and spontaneous abortion -
the end of the sentence talks about spontaneous abortion, but it is not clear whether the beginning
reference to abortion includes both.
Page 16, lines 9 - 14:  This sentence is unclear - please re-write.
Page 16, line 34:  Unclear what "this finding" refers to - please clarify.
Page 17, line 53:  Not clear what "need emphasis" means -- please clarify.
 
Are the methods appropriate and well described?
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Yes
Does the work include the necessary controls?
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Yes
Are the conclusions drawn adequately supported by the data shown?
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Yes
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additional statistical review?
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I am able to assess the statistics
Quality of written English
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Not suitable for publication unless extensively edited
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