Decision making autonomy and fertility behaviour among currently married women in Nigeria.

Bamiwuye, Olusina; Bisiriyu, Luqman A.; Akintayo, Olawunmi A.

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“…Most partnered men are breadwinners and are often solely responsible for the purchase of assets in the household, this increases their tendency to dominate major decisions including their female partners' reproductive decisions. On the other hand, women's wealth should increase their odds of making household decision-making because wealthy women are not only socio-economically empowered, they also command attention from their society and can influence their household decisions [22,23]. Therefore, it was expected that wealth should improve women's ability to make or participate in contraceptive decision-making just like in a similar recent study on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) [28].…”

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“…Again, the level of empowerment and autonomy among women in northern Nigeria is low [5], thus affecting their decision-making ability in their households [43], and their ability to participate in reproductive decisionmaking [22]. This cannot be divorced from women's low uptake of contraceptive in the region.…”

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“…it has been found that women who are educated [20], as well as those employed [20,21], are more likely to make contraceptive decisions independently or make joint decisions with their male partners. On the other hand, the positive influence of wealth on married women's household decision-making ability has been established [22,23]. Given that contraceptive decision-making ability reflects the extent of married women's decision-making abilities in the household, it is unclear whether wealth plays any role in their contraceptive decision-making abilities.…”

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Women’s and male partners’ socio-demographic and economic characteristics associated with contraceptive decision making in Nigeria

Okunlola

2022

BMC Women's Health

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Background Women’s ability to make contraceptive decision can determine their contraceptive use which can improve their reproductive health and career. Improvement in such ability can increase contraceptive prevalence in Nigeria. However, factors that promote contraceptive decision-making among women are scarcely studied. This study examined factors associated with women’s individual or joint contraceptive decision-making in Nigeria. Methods Secondary (cross-sectional) data were analysed. The data were extracted from the individual recode file of the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). Partnered women (i.e., currently married or living with a partner) aged 15–49 years and currently using contraceptives before the survey were considered. They constituted 4,823 in total. Their data were analysed using frequency and percentage distributions of variables, Chi-square tests of independence and multinominal logistic regression. Results Findings reveal that 23% (1,125) of women made their own contraceptive decision, nearly 67% (3,213) were joint decision makers, and 10% (491) stated that their male partners had decided for them. The probability of solely making contraceptive decision and being a joint decision maker (relative to being a male partner’s decision) was higher among women above 29 years and aged 30–34 years (than women aged 15–24 years) respectively as well as among the employed (than the unemployed) and among those from Yoruba ethnic group (than their counterparts from Hausa/Fulani/Kanuri/Beri Beri) respectively. The probability of being responsible for contraceptive decision (than being the male partner’s decision) was higher among women from the Igbo group and women whose male partners desired more children (than those with the same number of desired children) respectively. The probability of being the main decision maker (relative to being the male partner) was lower among women in the poorer (RRR = 0.39; 95%CI = 0.21–0.73; p = 0.01), middle (RRR = 0.47; 95%CI = 0.25–0.90; p = 0.02) and richest (RRR = 0.41; 95%CI = 0.20–0.82; p = 0.01) groups respectively, than the poorest women. The probability of being a joint decision maker was higher among women with secondary education (than the uneducated), practised Christianity (than the Muslims/ others), and among those residing in the North West region (than those in North East) respectively. However, the probability of being a joint decision-maker was lower among women whose partners desire more children and those who did not know their partners’ desires. Conclusions Women’s age, highest level of education, employment status, wealth index, ethnicity, religion, region of residence and male partners’ desire for children are associated with contraceptive decision making respectively. There is a need for reproductive empowerment interventions in Nigeria that devise effective ways of improving contraceptive decision-making power of partnered women aged 15–24 years, unemployed, in the poorer and richest groups, from the Hausa/Fulani/Kanuri/Beri Beri ethnic group, practising Islam/ other religions, have the same fertility desire as their partners and those who do not know their male partner’s desire for children respectively. Women whose partners desire more children should be empowered to participate effectively in contraceptive decision making.

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Women’s and male partners’ socio-demographic and economic characteristics associated with contraceptive decision making in Nigeria

Okunlola

2022

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“…This finding is attributable to the patriarchal culture 56 men's pronatalism and dominance in fertility decisions, and women’s pronatalism in the north. 13 These sociocultural factors can hinder women’s involvement in sexual and reproduction-related decisions, 57 which include refusing sex with their male partners and asking their male partners to use condoms. Effective digital family planning interventions, driven by the social cognitive theory, are needed to challenge the formidable sociocultural inhibitors of women's sexual agency in urban and rural areas of northern Nigeria.…”

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Internet use, exposure to digital family planning messages, and sexual agency among partnered women in Northern Nigeria: implications for digital family planning intervention

Okunlola,

Alawode,

Awoleye

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Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

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Digital health interventions are gaining ground in conflict-affected countries, but studies on their reproductive health benefits for women are scanty. Focusing on conflict-affected northern Nigeria, this study examined the relationships between Internet use, exposure to digital family planning messages via text messages or social media, and sexual agency – measured as the ability to refuse sex and ask a male partner to use a condom – among partnered women including the rural-urban differentials. Partnered women's data (n= 18,205) from the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey were analysed using descriptive and multinomial logistic regression analyses. 44.6% of women are able to refuse sex, and 31.4% to ask a male partner to use a condom. Internet use was positively associated with women's ability to refuse sex in the northern region and urban areas, and across the region to ask a male partner to use a condom. It was also positively associated with women's uncertainty about asking a male partner to use a condom. Exposure to digital family planning messages was positively associated with women's ability to ask a male partner to use a condom across the region, in both urban and rural areas. However, exposure to digital family planning messages was negatively associated with women's uncertainty in urban areas about their ability to refuse sex. Implications of these findings for digital family planning interventions are discussed.

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“…The influence of household decisions on fertility outcomes of women have been acknowledged by several scholars both in the developed world and in the developing countries. For example, Banjo et al (2018) examined the relationship between women autonomy and fertility behaviour in Nigeria using 2013 NDHS dataset to determine the characteristics of currently married women (n=27,829) associated with fertility behaviour. The results revealed that more than half of the respondents that participated in the survey (60%) had low decision-making autonomy.…”

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Influence of Household Decisions on the Socio-Economic and Fertility Behaviour of Women in Rural Nigeria

Mbah

Isiugo-Abanihe

Nwokocha

2023

JICD

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Household decisions are a major determinant of socio-economic and fertility behaviour of women in several parts of the world. In Nigeria, women’s participation in household decisions is low and accounts for negligible involvement of women in critical decision-making processes at the household level. Women in Nigeria, face discrimination, subordination, exploitation and relegation in several spheres of life. It has been observed that this discrimination against women is more pronunced in the developing African countries, Nigeria inclusive. In Nigeria, the culture of Patriarchy has aways set the parameters for unequal relationship between women and men regarding economic and reproductive health. It has been adjudged that women constitute about half of the population of Nigeria, yet there is inherently a pronounced level of discrimination of women's participation in the decision-making process regarding socio-economic and fertility behaviour of women themselves. This paper therefore attempts to x-ray the conceptual clarification of decision-making, overview of women's Participation in decision-making process, factors influencing women’s decision-making process, influence of household decisions on socio-economic roles of women, relationship between Household Decisions and Contraceptive use among Women, influence of household decisions on fertility outcomes of women, theoretical underpin of influence of household decisions on socio-economic and fertility behaviour of women, factors that supports significant changes in the influence of men’s dominance on women’s fertility, conclusion and as well proffer practical solutions to this ugly situation faced by Nigerian women. This papar therefore, argues that if the recommendations proffered in this papar are considered by the government as policy framework it will go a long way in the actualization of the global agenda on reproductive health and women empowerment by 2020. Received: 30 May 2023 / Accepted: 28 June 2023 / Published: 5 July 2023

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Decision making autonomy and fertility behaviour among currently married women in Nigeria.

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Women’s and male partners’ socio-demographic and economic characteristics associated with contraceptive decision making in Nigeria

Women’s and male partners’ socio-demographic and economic characteristics associated with contraceptive decision making in Nigeria

Internet use, exposure to digital family planning messages, and sexual agency among partnered women in Northern Nigeria: implications for digital family planning intervention

Influence of Household Decisions on the Socio-Economic and Fertility Behaviour of Women in Rural Nigeria

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