Withdrawal the most frequently adopted traditional method, have been used by 58 percent of the currently married women and 51 percent of the husbands. Of the users, the majority of women are users of a modern method. The condom, which is the second most popular modern method, is used by approximately 8 percent of married women and 11 percent of the husbands reported current use of condom. However, withdrawal, a traditional method, is the most popular method among currently married women of Turkey with 24 percent of the total contraceptive prevalence. As Table 7 shows, there are marked differences by residence in the proportion of women currently using a modern contraceptive method.
Urban women are considerably more likely to be using a modern method than rural women.
There appears to be a significant difference of overall contraceptive prevalence between the women living in the Western and Eastern areas of the country. While 71 percent of currently married women in the Western region are using some kind of contraception, the proportion declines to 42 percent in the East. Part of the difference between the two regions is associated to the difference between the levels of use of traditional methods. Turkey 1998 Other differentials in use levels are presented in Table 7. Younger and older women are much less likely to be using contraception than women 25-44.