Delayed marriage, contraceptive use and breastfeeding: Fertility patterns over time and wealth quintiles in sub-Saharan Africa

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Fertility among Northern Nigeria women and associated factors: Negative binomial regression model approach

“…Those who are married are less sexually active than women in male household heads because their husbands frequently do not live with them, therefore resulting in a low birth rate (18,23,24). Supporting previous studies, women with the poorest wealth index delivered more children than those in the middle wealth index (10,11,13,19,20,25,26,27). Mothers who practiced Islamic and traditional religions had more births than their counterparts who were of catholic background in north central and northwestern zones.…”

Children’s Work in African Agriculture

“…Importantly here, the dominance of these intersecting binaries has added to the invisibility of women's labour and largely obscured how the very notion of work is gendered (Rai et al, 2019;UN Women, 2019). Despite the eventual recognition of household chores as work (World Bank, 2005; ILO, 2017a), Finlay (2019) points out that the Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS), overseen by the World Bank, continues to position women's work as secondary to that of men. Similarly, although the UN System of National Accounts recognizes that 'production' may also include unpaid work, it nevertheless excludes unpaid care and domestic work from such calculations (UN Women, 2019, p 143).…”

From Fertility Preferences to Reproductive Outcomes in the Developing World

“…3 Nepal with a DFS of 1.98 is included in the group of countries with DFS 2-3. 4 The average failure rate is calculated from the distribution of contraceptive methods and method-specific levels of effectiveness estimated from Bongaarts (2015) and Finlay et al (2016).…”

“…The average failure rate is calculated from the distribution of contraceptive methods and method‐specific levels of effectiveness estimated from Bongaarts () and Finlay et al. ().…”