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Access Census Bureau's "IDB Data Access - Spreadsheets" Web page in order to retrieve the data on the "Prevalence of Contraceptive Use by Age" for your two countries, for all available years. Download this data into Excel.

The objective of this Exercise is to compare the contraceptive use for your two countries in the same year, if possible. Locate the latest possible year for which data is available for both of your countries. If you don't have data for your particular two countries for the same year, then select two closest years for which you do have the data. In case no data is available for one of your countries, use a different country with similar contraceptive patterns. Now delete the rest of the data so that you are left with only two consecutive rows of data, one for each country, each column representing a different age-group.

Now have Excel draw a side-by-side Bar Chart of this data. Make sure to label your graph and use legends to identify the two countries. Use this chart to comment on the patterns of contraceptive use by age, for the two countries in that year. You can include any relevant information you may have on this topic, about either one of your countries.