The Philippines
Family Planning Acceptors, January-June 1970
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10797271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John E Laing |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 113 |
| Publication date | 1971-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Family Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-3665 • E-ISSN: 1728-4465 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1965147 |
| PMID | 5113352 |
| OpenAlex | W2063172540 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Records for 6089 family planning acceptors in the Philippines (which represented about 8.5% of all acceptors for the first half of 1970) were gathered through the National Family Planning Record Keeping System and compared with data from the 1968 National Demographic Survey (a baseline household survey) in order to provide information on acceptors such as the distribution educational level occupation of husband age number of living children desire for additional children distance from residence to clinic source of knowledge about the clinic previous use of family planning and method accepted. Acceptors tended to concentrate in Greater Manila and to a lesser degree on the Island of Luzon with the rates declining as distance from Luzon increased. Women with higher levels of education and women whose husbands were non-agricultural manual workers were overrepresented among acceptors when compared with the base population; less-educated women and women whose husbands were farmers or fishermen (who represent 60% of the male labor force aged 25-64) were underrepresented. Age was inversely related to acceptance for women aged 20-39 with the median at 30.5--lower than the median age (32.2) of eligible women. Parity (4.0) was slightly higher than the average parity of eligible women (3.8). Choice of method (54% pills 19.3% IUDs 17.2% rhythm) seemed to be determined more by clinic policy and procedure than by individual characteristics. Findings suggest the necessity for a more proportional geographic distribution of the clinics with increased concentrated efforts to promote family planning directed at lower-status women in rural areas particularly wives of fishermen and farmers
Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Family planning · Geography · Population · Research methodology · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Philippine History and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1973 - 1974 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |