While many national family planning programs in developing countries are emphasizing improvements in service quality to increase contraceptive use, there is little empirical evidence to support this relationship due to limited data on how programs function. This paper presents data from a pilot study conducted in Morocco that links quality of care measures from public family planning facilities to contraceptive use data from the 1992 Morocco Demographic and Health Survey to investigate whether the quality of family planning services affects the contraceptive use of women who reside in the same area, controlling for individual, household, and community characteristics. In addition, the methodological issues involved in measuring quality and linking quality measures to contraceptive use are discussed. Several indicators of quality were found to be significantly related to contraceptive use net of individual, household, and community variables. However, further research is needed to improve the linkage of facility-based quality of care measure and population level data on contraceptive use
