Cameroon's slow fertility transition
A gender perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4267547 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean-Christophe Fotso (0000-0001-7875-7001, Evidence for Sustainable Human Development Systems in Africa (Cameroon)), J G Cleland (0000-0002-8635-1009, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Elihou O Adje (0000-0003-4917-9761, Evidence for Sustainable Human Development Systems in Africa (Cameroon)) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-91 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00324728.2023.2297687 |
| PMID | 38470717 |
| OpenAlex | W4392697857 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
We interrogate the proposition that men's attitudes have constrained the fertility transition in Cameroon, where fertility remains high and contraceptive use low despite much socio-economic progress. We use five Demographic and Health Surveys to compare trends in desired family size among young women and men and analyse matched monogamous couple data from the two most recent surveys to examine wives' and husbands' desires to stop childbearing and their relative influence on current contraceptive use. In 2018, average desired family size was 5.6 and 5.1, for young men and women respectively, and this difference (half a child) has not changed since 1998. Among matched couples, the proportions wanting to stop childbearing were similar in wives and their husbands, but wives perceived husbands to be much more pronatalist than themselves. Surprisingly, men's own reported preferences were more closely associated with contraceptive use than wives' perceptions of husbands' preferences. We discerned little evidence that men's attitudes have impeded reproductive change
Demographic economics · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Perception · Perspective (graphical) · Population · Proposition · Research methodology · Sociology · Total fertility rate · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Psychology · Social Psychology
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