Recent evidence on trends and differentials in Bangladesh fertility: an update

Amin, Ruhul; Ahmed, Ashrad U.; Chowdhury, Jamir; Kabir, M; Hill, Robert B.

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“…Bangladesh still lacks such an estimate, which raises questions about the country's fertility and contraceptive dynamics and prospects for future fertility decline. Use of contraception is the main contributor of fertility declining, as has been shown by many research workers (Cleland et al, 1994;R. Amin et al, 1994;Rani and Radheshyam, 2007).…”

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Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis Applied to Binary Contraceptive Prevalence Data

Khan¹,

Shaw²

2021

Journal of Data Science

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In public health, demography and sociology, large-scale surveys often follow a hierarchical data structure as the surveys are based on multistage stratified cluster sampling. The appropriate approach to analyzing such survey data is therefore based on nested sources of variability which come from different levels of the hierarchy. When the variance of the residual errors is correlated between individual observations as a result of these nested structures, traditional logistic regression is inappropriate. We use the 2004 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) contraceptive binary data which is a multistage stratified cluster dataset. This dataset is used to exemplify all aspects of working with multilevel logistic regression models, including model conceptualization, model description, understanding of the structure of required multilevel data, estimation of the model via the statistical package MLwiN, comparison between different estimations, and investigation of the selected determinants of contraceptive use.

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Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis Applied to Binary Contraceptive Prevalence Data

Khan¹,

Shaw²

2021

Journal of Data Science

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“…These two variables have a mutually determined relationship, if women use contraception, she will not want more children and vice versa. Some authors have used contraceptive method variable and women's fertility desire as dependent variables in the model (Amin, Kabir, Chowdhury, Ahmed, & Hill, 1994).…”

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Sex-composition of children and fertility desire in Vietnam

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This thesis aims to investigate whether the variation in sex composition of children can explain the variation of Vietnamese women's fertility desire. Vietnam has experienced rapid fertility decline since the middle of the 20th century but within a broader context of strong cultural norms regarding son preference. Thus, the sex composition of children is one of the key determinants of reproductive behavior within Vietnam. To my knowledge, no previous study has examined the relationship between sex composition of children and women's fertility desires in Vietnam. Using data from the 2014 Vietnam Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) I investigate the association between sex composition of children and desire for additional children among women in reproductive age (15 to 49) across Vietnam (N=5,605). Multivariate logistic regression models show a statistically significant positive association between the sex composition of children and women's fertility desire, after controlling for social norms of fertility preference, demographic and socioeconomic factors. For each group of women (those with one child, those with two children, and those with three or more children) women with no son are more likely to have higher fertility desire compared to women with at least one son. However, women with both son (s) and daughter (s) tend to have lower fertility desire compared to those who have all sons. My results suggest that Vietnam's traditional cultural norm of son preference has a strong influence on fertility desire, and potentially reproductive behavior. These findings have implications for family planning policies in Vietnam.

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A hierarchical model of contraceptive use in urban and rural Bangladesh

Khan

1997

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Recent evidence on trends and differentials in Bangladesh fertility: an update

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis Applied to Binary Contraceptive Prevalence Data

Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis Applied to Binary Contraceptive Prevalence Data

Sex-composition of children and fertility desire in Vietnam

A hierarchical model of contraceptive use in urban and rural Bangladesh

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