SECTION 1: Introduction to Adding It Up 2014
This report provides methodological details on the estimates presented in Adding It Up: The Costs and Benefits of Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health 20141 and related publications.2–5 Adding It Up is an ongoing Guttmacher Institute project in which researchers estimate the need for and the use, costs and impacts of various sexual and reproductive health services for developing countries. The years for which estimates have thus far been produced are 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2014. While the basic approach remains unchanged, there have been changes in coverage and in some of the methodological approaches across these projects.