Demographic and socioeconomic determinants of contraceptive adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa /
The levels of contraceptive use are relatively low in Sub-Saharan Africa, although they have recently increased in a number of countries. The literature has given little attention to the factors that have led to recent increases in the levels of contraceptive use. Using data obtained from the Demogr...
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | The levels of contraceptive use are relatively low in Sub-Saharan Africa, although they have recently increased in a number of countries. The literature has given little attention to the factors that have led to recent increases in the levels of contraceptive use. Using data obtained from the Demographic and Health Surveys for Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe covering the period from 1988 to 1994, the study examines the extent to which demographic and socioeconomic factors impact contraceptive adoption among married women in Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, the study expands adoption and diffusion theory by incorporating more demographic and socioeconomic variables and their interaction terms. The results of descriptive and multivariate analyses suggest that couple communication, husband's disapproval of family planning, mass media messages, knowledge of sources of contraception and sociodemographic factors such as education, demand for children, urban residency, region of residence, the number of living children and current employment impact contraceptive use, but the impacts on the use of elective contraceptives are less. The theory of adoption and diffusion explains the use of contraceptives in Sub-Saharan Africa otter than it explains the use of effective contraceptives. In general, the impacts of the principal components of adoption and division theory were very consistent across these countries in both years. The findings further indicate that the use of modern contraceptives such as pills, injections, sterilization, and IUDs has increased in Ghana Kenya and Zimbabwe, while the use of traditional contraception has declined only in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Periodic abstinence is the most popular method in Ghana, while the pill is the most popular method in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Testing for the elects of interaction terms, the study finds that the likelihood of contraceptive adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa vary by year and by country. The interaction effects models better explain contraceptive use in Ghana and Kenya while these models provide a better explanation of the use of effective contraceptives in Zimbabwe. The results of this study, however, did not provide enough evidence to support the importance of interaction terms in the analysis of contraceptive adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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| Item Description: | Vita. "Major Subject: Sociology". |
| Physical Description: | xv, 286 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 273-285). |