A search for aggregate-level effects of education on fertility, using data from Zimbabwe

Kravdal, Øystein

doi:10.4054/demres.2000.3.3

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“…The fact that the northern region is predominantly rural gives credence to the argument that the delayed adoption of modern contraception among women in the region is, among other factors, an issue of costs associated with the services. Our findings are in agreement with studies elsewhere that have identified education as a predictor of family planning use [20,34,45,46]. The finding that contraceptive prevalence is higher among educated women compared with noneducated women, however, does not imply that contraceptive use increases only with education.…”

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“…Given that the northern region of the country is predominantly rural, it is not surprising that the region has lower contraceptive prevalence compared with the central region, which is predominantly urban. Educated women are regarded as having higher odds of modern contraceptive use compared with the noneducated ones [25,29,34]. The contentious issues, however, are as follows: (i) whether contraceptive use increases with education level and (ii) the minimum level of education is associated with increased odds of contraceptive use.…”

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Predictors of Time-to-Contraceptive Use from Resumption of Sexual Intercourse after Birth among Women in Uganda

Wamala

Kabagenyi

Kasasa

2017

International Journal of Population Research

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Globally, there is extant literature on patterns and dynamics of postpartum contraceptive use with hardly any evidence examining time-to-contraceptive use from resumption of sexual intercourse after birth among women in Uganda. Methods. The analysis was based on data from 2011 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey on a sample of 2983 married women with a birth in the past three years preceding the survey and had resumed sexual intercourse. A time-to-contraceptive use was adopted in the analysis using life tables based on the Kaplan-Meier estimates, while the Log-Rank Chi-square tests assessed the variables to be included in regression analysis. Cox-Proportional Hazard regression was run to identify the predictors of time-to-contraceptive use among postpartum women in Uganda. Sampling weights were applied in the analysis to ensure representativeness. Results. The median time-tocontraceptive use was 19 months (range 0-24). Time to adoption of modern contraceptive use was significantly longer among women with no formal education, residing in northern region, who (HR = 0.56, CI: 0.40-0.78) had delivered at home/traditional birth attendant (HR = 0.75, CI: 0.60-0.93), had 1-3 antenatal care visits (HR = 0.83, CI: 0.70-0.98), and were in poorest wealth quintile. Conclusions. Measures for enhancing modern contraceptive use during and after the postpartum period should focus on (i) addressing hindrances in accessing family planning, particularly among poor and noneducated women; (ii) integration of family planning service delivery into routine ANC through counseling; and (iii) promoting deliveries in health facilities.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Predictors of Time-to-Contraceptive Use from Resumption of Sexual Intercourse after Birth among Women in Uganda

Wamala

Kabagenyi

Kasasa

2017

International Journal of Population Research

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“…Net of a woman's own education, the average education of women in a community has been shown to have a negative association with individual fertility in Peru (Tienda, Diaz and Smith 1985), Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines (Hirschman and Guest 1990;Hirschman and Young 2000), Kenya (Lesthaeghe et al 1985), sub-Saharan Africa (Kravdal 2002) and South India (Morsound and Kravdal (2003). In Bangladesh (Amin, Diamond and Steele 1996), India (McNay et al 2003) and Zimbabwe (Kravdal 2000) researchers found positive associations between community level literacy among women and individuallevel contraceptive use, net of an individual woman's schooling.…”

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The community-level effects of women's education on reproductive behaviour in rural Ghana

Benefo¹

2006

DemRes

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“…Improved sanitation and health care have also been important developments as they lower infant mortality, obviating the demand for "insurance" births (Davis, 1963;Hirschman & Guest, 1990;Singh, 1994). Perhaps most important, however, are the effects of the vast expansion of school systems on female education, which has led to marriage postponement, empowerment of women to adopt "western" values of smaller families, and improved use of fertilityregulating methods (Caldwell, 1980;Diamond, Clements, Stone, & Ingham 1999;Dreze & Murthi, 2001;Easterlin & Crimmins, 1982;Hirschman & Guest, 1990;Kravdal, 2000;United Nations, 1995a, b, c). Each of these processes operates through proximate behavioral and biological factors regulating fertility: fecundity or potential fertility, fertility preferences, and the implementation of those preferences through formation of unions, use of contraceptives, and birth spacing (Bertrand, Salazar, Mazariegos, Salanic, Rice, & Sow, 1999;Davis, 1963;United Nations, 1987, 1995aWarren, 1987).…”

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Declining fertility on the frontier: the Ecuadorian Amazon

Carr

Pan

Bilsborrow³

2007

Popul Environ

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This paper examines farm and household characteristics associated with a rapid fertility decline in a forest frontier of the Ecuadorian Amazon. The Amazon basin and other rainforests in the tropics are among the last frontiers in the ongoing global fertility transition. The pace of this transition along agricultural frontiers will likely have major implications for future forest transitions, rural development, and ultimately urbanization in frontier areas. The study here is based upon data from a probability sample of 172 women who lived on the same farm in 1990 and 1999. These data are from perhaps the first region-wide longitudinal survey of fertility in an agricultural frontier. Descriptive analyses indicate that fertility has plummeted in the region, which is surprising since it had remained high and unchanging among migrant colonists up to 1990. Thus only half of the women in our sample reported having a birth during the 1990-1999 time period, and most women report in 1999 that they do not want to have any more children. Analyses, controlling for women's age, corroborate hypotheses about land-fertility relations. For example, women from households with a legal land title had fewer than half as many children as those from households without a title. Large cattle (pasture) holdings and hiring laborers to work on the farm (which may replace household labor) are both related to socio-economic status that is traditionally associated with lower fertility. Similarly, distance to the nearest community center is positively related to fertility. Factors negatively related to fertility include increasing temporary out-migration of adult men or women from the household, asset accumulation, and access to electricity.

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A search for aggregate-level effects of education on fertility, using data from Zimbabwe

Cited by 26 publications

References 13 publications

Predictors of Time-to-Contraceptive Use from Resumption of Sexual Intercourse after Birth among Women in Uganda

Predictors of Time-to-Contraceptive Use from Resumption of Sexual Intercourse after Birth among Women in Uganda

The community-level effects of women's education on reproductive behaviour in rural Ghana

Declining fertility on the frontier: the Ecuadorian Amazon

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