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Long term trajectories of fertility and contraceptive use / Thomas Pullum, Shireen Assaf.
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- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Pullum, Thomas W., author.
- Assaf, Shireen, author.
- Series:
- DHS analytical studies ; no. 58.
- DHS analytical studies ; no. 58
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fertility, Human--Statistics.
- Fertility, Human.
- Contraceptives--Statistics.
- Contraceptives.
- Contraception--Statistics.
- Contraception.
- Birth control--Statistics.
- Birth control.
- Vital statistics.
- Genre:
- Government publications -- United States.
- Online resources.
- Statistics
- Statistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 79 pages) : illustrations (some color).
- Place of Publication:
- Rockville, Maryland, USA : ICF International, 2016.
- Summary:
- DHS estimates of current fertility and contraceptive use have immediate interest after the release of each survey. This report takes a long-term perspective, examining trajectories of fertility and contraception by piecing together the data from the countries that have had the most surveys. It includes 16 countries that have had five or more surveys Bangladesh, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ghana, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Mali, Peru, the Philippines, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, with a total of 98 surveys. The fertility trajectories span an interval from about 1980 to about 2010. All of these countries have experienced declines in their TFR, by amounts ranging from one child in Tanzania to about four children in Jordan. The median TFR declined from 6.4 to 3.8, a reduction of 42% in about 30 years. There was a strong correlation, 0.72, between the first and last values of the TFR. In most countries the mean age at childbearing did not change but there was a greater concentration around that mean. Changes in the use of modern contraception were tracked in a subset of four of the countries that had six or seven surveys Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, and Senegal, with a total of 26 surveys using time-varying coefficient models (VCMs). The interest is in whether odds ratios are moving toward one, indicating similar levels of contraceptive prevalence across sub-populations. In most countries there has been a gradual reduction in the differences between sub-populations, indicating that access to contraception has broadened as overall use has increased.
- Notes:
- "August 2016."
- "This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-75).
- Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from title page (DHS website, viewed February 21, 2019).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Pullum, Thomas W., Long term trajectories of fertility and contraceptive use
- OCLC:
- 968793408
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