Socio-economic Correlates of High Fertility among Low Contraceptive Communities of Southern Ethiopia

Bibliographic Data

ID5178331
AuthorsNigatu Regassa (International Institute for Population Sciences, Govandi Station Road, Deonar , Mumbai 400 088, Maharashtra, India, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume21
Issue3
Pages203-213
Publication date2007-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Human Ecology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0970-9274 • E-ISSN: 2456-6608
PublisherKamla Raj Enterprises (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/09709274.2007.11905974
OpenAlexW2308497678
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited3

This article is an empirical study aimed at examining the socio economic determinants or correlates of fertility in low contraceptive communities in Southern Ethiopia. The data were collected from 1467 ever-married women who were selected through the multistage stratified sampling technique. The study examined the adjusted and unadjusted effects of eleven predictors using a multivariate analysis model called Multiple Classification Analysis (MCA) The findings of the multivariate analysis using MCA model revealed that there exists significant relationship between seven explanatory variables and the dependent variable (children ever born). While Son preference, nutritional status, patriarchal structure and land size are found to have significant positive relationship with fertility, duration of abstinence is known to yield strong negative relationship with the response variable. Finally, on the basis of the findings, few policy recommendations were given

Abstinence · Fertility · Geography · Multivariate analysis · Multivariate statistics · Population · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Statistics · Stratified sampling · Variables · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · Gender, Education, and Development Issues · Global Maternal and Child Health · Mathematics · Psychology

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