Explaining Fertility Variation in Rural Communities: The Role of Electricity in Ghana

Akpandjar, George M.; Puozaa, Conrad Y.; Quartey, Peter

doi:10.3390/economies6030040

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“…One of them was Samad and Zhang (2017), which evaluated different levels of electricity availability in the context of RERED Programme in Bangladesh which also had a technical support and affordability component. Lee (2019), Kurata (2018), Kumar (2018), Koima (2019), Khandker (2014), Khandker (2013), Fuji (2018, Ding (2018), , Chen (2019), , Chakravorty (2014), Blimpo (2018), Bezerra (2017), Bernard (2014), Bensch (2015), Bensch (2012), Barron (2017), Arráiz (2015), Alcazar (2007), Akpandjar (2018), Akpandjar (2017), Aevarsdottir (2017), Adusah-Poku (2019).…”

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Strengthening intergroup social cohesion in fragile situations

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“…Akpandjar (2018) found that electrification contributed to a significant fall in fertility among rural women by between one and three children.…”

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Strengthening intergroup social cohesion in fragile situations

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“…Rural areas had higher odds of fertility status as compared to urban areas. The nding was supported by a study conducted in Ghana and another sub-Saharan Africa [15,16]. This could explain by in place of residence, evidence suggests that limited access to family planning and reproductive health information in rural areas and services contributes to these outcomes and rural residents desiring additional children [17].…”

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Fertility status and associated factors among the reproductive age group in Ethiopia: Mini Demographic and Health Survey 2019

Damete¹,

Baraki²

2023

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Background: Fertility status is the possibility to produce offspring through reproduction following the onset of reproductive age. There are a number of environmental and biological factors that influence a person's reproductive behavior when viewed from a demographic perspective, which serve to mediate the impact of culture, society, economic conditions, living standards, and other similar background factors. The aim of this study was to determine factors associated with fertility status among the reproductive age group. Methods: The data for this study was extracted from Ethiopia mini demographic and health survey 2019. The study involved 8885 household with reproductive age group in a weighted sample. The analysis was performed using STATA version 16 software. Using sampling weights for descriptive statistics and complex sample designs for inferential statistics, backward stepwise elimination was manually applied. Finally, statistical significance declared at the level of p-value < 0.05. Result: The prevalence of fertility status in Ethiopia was observed to be 44.7%. In multivariate analysis the household female (AOR = 0.465, 95% CI: 0.418-0.517) had lower odds of fertility status in comparison to household male. The odds of fertility status were higher among the catholic religion as compared to the orthodox religion, (AOR = 1.615, 95% CI: 1.408-1.853). The odds of fertility status were lower in the Addis Ababa region in comparison to the Tigray region (AOR = 0.636, 95% CI: 0.495-0.818). Fertility status odds were lower among those who could read only parts of the sentence literacy in comparison to those who were unable to read at all (AOR = 0.736, 95% CI: 0.623-0.869). The odds of fertility status were lower among primary educational levels as compared to no educational levels (AOR = 0.721, 95% CI: 0.632-0.823). Regarding the household wealth index, the richest-wealth index (AOR = 0.832, 95% CI: 0.689-1.004) had lower odds of fertility status when compared with children from the poorest-wealth index. There was a lower odds of fertility status for electricity users compared with wood charcoal users using electricity as a cooking fuel (AOR = 0.825, 95% CI: 0.681-0.999). The odds of fertility status were higher among those with no toilet facility than those with pit latrines (AOR = 1.145, 95% CI: 1.009-1.298). Conclusion: The high fertility status and population growth observed in this study. It shows significantly associated with household sex, region, literacy, educational level, religion, wealth index, cooking fuel, and toilet facility had a statistically significant association with fertility status. There are many factors contributing to economic development, including access to education and media, as well as job opportunities in modern economic sectors. In addition to this, it is important to develop and maintain access of family planning services.

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“…The NR tend to share similar causes of low use of FP coupled with other factors like poverty, low education among women and religious/cultural beliefs (Akpandjar, Puozaa, & Quartey, 2018). The population Council is supporting Government of Ghana in reaching its Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 5, which is to improve maternal health by 2015, with much focus on reducing maternal morbidity and mortality due to unsafe abortion by improving access to contraceptive services (Novignon, Djossou, & Enemark, 2019).…”

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“…Worldwide, 70 million unwanted pregnancies occur every year; with 20 million resulting in unsafe abortion which contributes to 13% of all maternal mortality (Akpandjar, 2018). An estimated 358,000 maternal deaths occurred worldwide in 2018 with developing countries accounting for 95% of all the deaths.…”

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Reducing the unmet needs of family planning among women of reproductive age in Northern Region of Ghana

Mohammed

Ullah

2020

J. Heal. Technol. Assess. Midwifery

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The recent Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 2014, estimated that 30 % of currently married women have an unmet need for family planning services, with 17% having an unmet need for spacing and 13% having an unmet need for limiting. The objective of the study was to review the unmet need of family planning in order to make appropriate recommendation to improve family planning use in the Northern Region of Ghana. A conceptual framework which outlines the factors that interplay to determine the use of family planning services in Northern Region of Ghana was designed and used for the study. The data were sought from unpublished documents from the Regional Health Directorate of Northern Ghana, websites of Ghana Health Service, online international publications and University of Leeds Library. The unmet needs of family planning in the region was found to result from a number of factors including inaccessibility to family planning services, non-availability of some type of contraceptive methods in the communities, religious beliefs that contradict the use of family planning, traditional and cultural belief system which promotes high fertility preferences, high illiteracy level, non-approval of family planning by men who are the decision makers, misconception about the use of contraception and high poverty in the region. The identified possible strategies for tackling the factors responsible for unmet need of family planning in the Northern Region, community-based family planning services, family planning health education outreach, peer education and religious-based education were found to be considerably effective, feasible and sustainable.

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Explaining Fertility Variation in Rural Communities: The Role of Electricity in Ghana

Cited by 8 publications

References 33 publications

Strengthening intergroup social cohesion in fragile situations

Strengthening intergroup social cohesion in fragile situations

Fertility status and associated factors among the reproductive age group in Ethiopia: Mini Demographic and Health Survey 2019

Reducing the unmet needs of family planning among women of reproductive age in Northern Region of Ghana

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