Towards a Working Definition and Application of Social Age in International Development Studies

Clark-Kazak, Christina

doi:10.1080/00220380902862952

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“…Although the choice of the age “35” is arbitrary, it is in recognition and appreciation of the difference between social age, which is concerned with the different roles a person takes along their lifecycle [27], [28] and chronological age, the number of years lived. The socially constructed nature of age tends to vary across context and time in history.…”

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confidence: 99%

Having a Say Matters: Influence of Decision-Making Power on Contraceptive Use among Nigerian Women Ages 35–49 Years

OlaOlorun

Hindin

2014

PLoS ONE

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BackgroundResearch suggests that women of reproductive age who are involved in household decision-making are more likely than those who are not involved to be able to control their fertility. Little is known, however, about this relationship among women at the upper end of the reproductive spectrum. The aim of this study was to determine the association between household decision-making power and modern contraceptive use among Nigerian women ages 35–49 years.MethodsA descriptive, cross-sectional study involving a secondary analysis of data from the Nigerian 2008 Demographic and Health Survey was conducted among women ages 35–49 years who were considered to be in need of contraception. The outcome was modern contraceptive use while the main independent variable was a woman's household decision-making power score, constructed using principal component analysis. Multivariate logistic regression was performed to determine whether the women's household decision-making power score, categorized into tertiles, was independently associated with modern contraceptive use. Data were weighted and adjusted for the complex survey design.ResultsPrevalence of modern contraceptive use among Nigerian women deemed to be in need of contraception in this study was 18.7%. Multivariate logistic regression showed that women's decision-making power remained statistically significantly associated with modern contraceptive use, even after adjusting for age, education, religion, polygyny, parity, wealth and domicile. Women who were in the highest decision-making power tertile had more than one and a half times the odds of using modern contraception compared with women in the lowest tertile [Adjusted Odds Ratio = 1.70; 95% Confidence Interval = 1.31–2.21, p<0.001].SignificanceOlder Nigerian women who are involved in making household decisions are also able to make decisions related to their fertility. Programs in Nigeria focused on increasing modern contraceptive use should include strategies to increase women's status through encouraging more visible involvement in decision-making across different spheres of their lives.

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Having a Say Matters: Influence of Decision-Making Power on Contraceptive Use among Nigerian Women Ages 35–49 Years

OlaOlorun

Hindin

2014

PLoS ONE

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“…International agencies such as the United Nations tend to adopt chronological definitions of young people as those between the ages of 15-24 (United Nations, 2013). Among researchers, there is increased consensus that youth is a social construct wherein the markers defining the beginning and the end of this stage vary greatly across culture and context (Auerbach, 2010;Clark-Kazak, 2009;Sommers, 2012). Recent analysis of Gallup and Afrobarometer survey data demonstrates that the proportion of youth within the same African nations varies based on the indicators used to define the end of youth and the beginning of adulthood (Mo Ibrahim Foundation, 2012).…”

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Conflict: Education and Youth

Dryden‐Peterson¹,

Bellino

Chopra³

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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“…Through the survey and design work, we are learning how and why teens surface information needs; the ways in which they find, assess, remix, share, and curate information in everyday life situations; the ways in which ICTs are involved in their efforts to help others; and the influences of cultural, gender, and social factors [7]. Our youth typically range in age from 14-18, but depending on the self-defined, social age of the community with which we're working, we sometimes extend the framework [4]. Our current work with the Office of the United Nations High Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page.…”

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Using ICT design to learn about immigrant teens from Myanmar

Bishop

Fisher

2015

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

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We share results from a multi-day design workshop with 24 immigrant and refugee teenagers from Myanmar (Burma). The workshop focused on information technology and services that intersect with the crucial role of the youth as information navigators for their families, friends and communities. ICT design serves as a lens through which one can learn about the experiences of youth in global migration, especially when incorporating multiple cultural probes as part of the extended design process, in the form of games, drawings, stories, and skits. Findings show Burmese culture and refugee/immigration experiences are manifested in the teens' ICT wayfaring practices in the U.S., and that the youth creatively play invaluable, albeit sometimes hidden, roles in systemically supporting everyday information and technology needs across communities.

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Towards a Working Definition and Application of Social Age in International Development Studies

Cited by 52 publications

References 25 publications

Having a Say Matters: Influence of Decision-Making Power on Contraceptive Use among Nigerian Women Ages 35–49 Years

Having a Say Matters: Influence of Decision-Making Power on Contraceptive Use among Nigerian Women Ages 35–49 Years

Conflict: Education and Youth

Using ICT design to learn about immigrant teens from Myanmar

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