The Causes of Unmet Need for Contraception and the Social Content of Services

Bongaarts, John; Bruce, Judith

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“…High fertility might contribute to a more general concept of well-being and be reinforced by mechanisms involving not only the lack of access to modern contraception (e.g. Bongaarts and Bruce, 1995;Westoff and Bankole, 2000), but also a positive evaluation of having many children.…”

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Fertility and Life Satisfaction in Rural Ethiopia

Conzo

Fuochi

2017

Demography

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There is a growing number of studies focusing on the role of fertility in subjective well-being in developed countries while developing countries have been rarely taken into account. We investigate the empirical relationship between fertility and life satisfaction in rural Ethiopia, the largest landlocked country in Africa providing the unique opportunity of panel data availability. Our results suggest that older men benefit the most in terms of life satisfaction from the investment in children, the latter being instead detrimental for women's subjective well being in reproductive age. In particular, consistently with the related socio-economic theories, we find that the number of children ever born plays a positive role for men's life satisfaction in older age. Conversely, a new birth produces the opposite effect especially for young women. We argue that this mismatch has two complementary explanations: on the one hand, rather than a source of (labour) support young children represent a burden which traditionally falls on women's shoulders in the short run; on the other hand, in poor rural areas children can be thought as a valuable long-term investment in a lifecycle perspective. Endogeneity issues are addressed by controlling for lagged life satisfaction in OLS regressions, through fixed effects and the IV approach.3

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Fertility and Life Satisfaction in Rural Ethiopia

Conzo

Fuochi

2017

Demography

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“…In India, female sterilization is the most commonly preferred method of contraception accounting for 76 % of all methods, while in Tamil Nadu it was 90 %. But the usage of temporary methods of contraception remains low, which is mostly due to social stigma and cultural misbeliefs [3][4][5], lack of knowledge [6,7] and concern about side effects [4,[7][8][9]. Women's decision on use of contraceptive methods is influenced by several social constraints and social circumstances including family sex composition and gender preference.…”

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Unmet Needs of Family Planning Among Women: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Rural Area of Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu, South India

Prasad

Jayaseelan

Singh

2016

J Obstet Gynecol India

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Background Global contraceptive usage was 63.3 % in 2010 which was 9 % more than that in 1990. NFHS-III 2005-2006 revealed that the contraceptive prevalence rate was 56 % while in the past decade it was 48 %. In India, female sterilization is the most commonly preferred method of contraception accounting for 76 %, while in Tamil Nadu it was 90 %. Thus, this study aims at measuring the prevalence of unmet needs of family planning and its determinants in a rural area of Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu. Materials and Methods The study was carried out as a community-based cross-sectional study in Chunambed panchayat, a rural area in Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu, India, among 505 women of age group 15-49 years. Cluster random sampling was done to select the households to include in the study. In every household, all the available and eligible women were explained about the study and recruited after obtaining informed consent. Statistical Analysis Chi-square test was applied for finding the difference in proportion, and p value \0.05 was considered statistically significant. 123Results The prevalence of unmet need for family planning in our study population was nearly 31 %; it was even more for younger age groups and for the women whose family size was less. 51.7 % of the participants were currently using a contraceptive measure and very few of their partners used contraception. Government health facilities were the major source of contraceptive service and majority of our participants were well aware about the various contraceptive methods. Conclusion Unmet needs of family planning were high in our study population, and the knowledge about the contraceptive use and family planning was found to be fairly adequate.

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“…Recently, however, teenage sexuality and pregnancy have been framed as a social problem, whose negative outcomes for the lives of adolescent women (e.g. higher exposure to STDs including HIV/AIDS, high subsequent fertility, truncated education, economic disadvantage, etc) have been widely used to justify the need for public intervention and expansion of family planning programs to target the issue 2,3,4,5,6 . The assumption that teenage pregnancy is frequently unwanted or unplanned suggests that one of the causes may be the insufficiency or inadequacy of family planning programs 7,8 .…”

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confidence: 99%