Women's empowerment, sociocultural contexts, and reproductive behaviour in Nepal / Bina Gubhaju and Stephen A. Matthews.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Gubhaju, Bina, author.

Contributor:

Matthews, Stephen A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population and Demography.

Nepal.

Local Subjects:

Population and Demography.

Nepal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (26 pages)

Contained In:

Asia-Pacific Population Journal Vol. 24, no. 2, p. 25-50 24:2<25 15644278

Place of Publication:

New York : United Nations, 2009.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

While demography is an inherently spatial science, most practicing demographers have not been encouraged to think spatially, even though demographic behaviour will differ by geographic region (Weeks, 2004). The incorporation of geocodes in large-scale demographic surveys provides new opportunities for research on geographic patterns of behaviour, including reproductive behaviour. In this paper, the authors assume that a woman's reproductive behaviour takes place in sociocultural contexts, and specifically, authors explore whether the sociocultural context of women's empowerment is important in shaping her behaviour. Using data on 1,594 Nepalese married women from the 1996 Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS), the specific issues explored are whether sociocultural context matters for a woman's use of prenatal care and assistance during delivery. To date, no nationally representative study of Nepal had explicitly incorporated district-level contextual data, linked those data with individual-level responses, and then used multivariate hierarchical methods for analysis.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed May 1, 2017).

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