BackgroundrnTraditionally, women have been the main respondents for the most of knowledge, attitude and practice survey related to family planning, contraceptive prevalence, demographic and health surveys and the like. The role of men has been limited especially in Africa where as men are the primary decision-makers of most reproductive issues including family planning. However, it has been now realized that programs that exclusively focus on either men or women may fail because most sexual, family planning, and child bearing decision are made or may potentially be able to be made by both partners together. Thus it is important to interview both husband and wives when ascertaining family planning attitudes and most other reproductive health research.rnObjectivernTo assess the level of agreement and concordance regarding fertility intention and contraceptive use between married couples.rnMethodologyrnA community based cross sectional survey was conducted on 422 married coupleâ€Ÿs in Dukem town which were selected by using systematic random sampling method. Both quantitative and qualitative method was employed. Data pertaining to fertility intentions and contraception was collected and the level of agreement (kappa statistics) between husbands and wives was computed.rnResultrnThe observed concordance was 71.6% for ideal family size, 94.9% for contraceptive attitude, 95.9% for fertility desire, and 99.7% for report of number of currently living children. The unadjusted kappa statistic varied from a relatively low of 0.61(p