The Determinants of Fertility in Swaziland

Bibliographic Data

ID4266959
AuthorsCharles W Warren (0000-0001-7882-5000, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion), J Timothy Johnson (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion), Gugulethu Gule (University of Eswatini), Ephraim Hlophe (Ministry of Health), Daniel Kraushaar, Daniel C Kraushaar (Ministry of Health)
Year1992
Volume46
Issue1
Pages5-17
Publication date1992-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopulation Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0032472031000145976
OpenAlexW2006841764
LanguageEN
Citations received7

In this paper data from the 1988 Swaziland Family Health Survey, the first comprehensive study of fertility and family planning conducted in Swaziland, are used to examine the relative importance of nuptiality, contraceptive use, lactation, and involuntary infertility as they affect fertility. It is shown that future decreases in fertility in Swaziland are most likely to result from increases in use of contraception. Current use of contraception among women of reproductive age, though only 17 per cent, is four times higher than previously reported, and its effectiveness appears to be high. The nuptiality effect appears least likely to change, because it is such an integral part of Swazi custom. Most Swazi women experience post partum amenorrhoea of long duration; thus, an increase in the importance of this factor is unlikely to decrease fertility

Affect (linguistics) · Biology · Environmental health · Family planning · Fertility · Gynecology · Infertility · Population · Pregnancy · Research methodology · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Psychology