Factors affecting desired family size in Bangladesh

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kabir ◽  
Ruhul Amin ◽  
Ashraf Uddin Ahmed ◽  
Jamir Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Work Status ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Rural Bangladesh ◽  
Contraceptive Prevalence ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Desired Family Size

SummaryFactors affecting desired family size in rural Bangladesh are examined using data from contraceptive prevalence surveys conducted between 1983 and 1991. The analysis suggests that mothers having two sons and one daughter are more inclined to perceive their family as complete than those having three sons and no daughter. Logistic regression analysis indicates that important determinants of desire for more children are age of woman, current contraceptive use status, work status, and family planning worker's visit. The policy implications of these findings are discussed.

Factors affecting desired family size among preliterate New Guinea mothers

1985 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 413-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald E. Pust ◽  
Jeanne S. Newman ◽  
Janet Senf ◽  
Esther Stotik
Keyword(s):  
Family Size ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Desired Family Size

Commuter Bicyclist Route Choice: Analysis Using a Stated Preference Survey

2003 ◽  
Vol 1828 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique A. Stinson ◽  
Chandra R. Bhat
Keyword(s):  
Travel Time ◽  
Stated Preference ◽  
Empirical Models ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Facility Planning ◽  
Quality Factors ◽  
Stated Preference Survey ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Choice Analysis ◽  
Using Data

The importance of factors affecting commuter bicyclists’ route choices was evaluated. Both route-level (e.g., travel time) and link-level (e.g., pavement quality) factors are examined. Empirical models are estimated using data from a stated preference survey conducted via the Internet. The models indicate that, for commuter bicyclists, travel time is the most important factor in choosing a route. Presence of a bicycle facility (especially a bike lane or separate path), the level of automobile traffic, pavement or riding surface quality, and presence of a bicycle facility on a bridge are also very important determinants. Furthermore, there are policy implications of these results for bicycle facility planning.

Determinants of Breastfeeding Duration in Peninsular Malaysia

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Halimah Awang ◽  
Abdul Latif Haji Salleh
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Maternal Age ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Breastfeeding Duration ◽  
Work Status ◽  
First Child ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Determinants Of Breastfeeding

The health benefits of breastfeeding to infants and mothers have been well recognised. This study applies linear regression analysis to assess the determinants of breastfeeding duration of first born using data from the Second Malaysian Family Life Survey. The proportion of women who breastfed their first child is 82 percent, of which 97 percent reported their breastfeeding duration. The distribution of breastfeeding duration has a mean of 5.7 months and a median of two months. Important determinants of breastfeeding duration include maternal age, ethnicity, period of first birth, husband's occupation and work status of the woman. Asia Pac JPublic Health 2000;12(2): 102-106

Patterns of Family Building and Contraceptive Use of Middle-Class Couples

1978 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Woodward ◽  
Ann Heath ◽  
Lynne Chisholm
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Relative Effectiveness ◽  
World Population ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Contraceptive Usage ◽  
Family Building ◽  
Desired Family Size ◽  
High Level

SummaryInterviews with 103 middle-class wives on their family building experiences and use of birth control techniques show this highly educated group to be effective family planners in comparison with other social groups. The wives developed clear ideas early in marriage about family size, timing and spacing, formulated with reference to sets of beliefs about the transmission of cultural advantage from parents to children, and their social responsibility in relation to world population levels. Ideas about the spacing of children and desired family size appear to be influenced by the women’s orientation towards returning to employment, but their relatively late age of terminating full-time education has had remarkably little effect on the timing of either marriage or the first child’s birth. Female contraceptive methods were most popular with this sample, and their relative effectiveness as family planners may be explained by their preference for the more reliable techniques and high level of motivation to use them efficiently. Variations in patterns of contraceptive usage noted between this and other studies are probably a function of age differences in the groups of women surveyed.

Effects of family sex composition on fertility preference and behaviour in rural Bangladesh

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. I. Chowdhury ◽  
Radheshyam Bairagi ◽  
Michael A. Koenig
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Sex Composition ◽  
Fertility Preferences ◽  
Fertility Preference ◽  
Rural Bangladesh ◽  
Sex Preference ◽  
Subsequent Fertility ◽  
Living Children

SummaryThe effects of family sex composition on fertility preferences and behaviour during the period 1977–88 are examined using longitudinal data from Matlab, Bangladesh. The sex composition of living children was found to be systematically related to fertility preferences and behaviour, with a higher number of sons at each family size associated with a higher percentage of women wanting no more children, a higher percentage currently using contraception, and lower subsequent fertility. However, the highest percentage wanting no more children, using contraception and having lowest subsequent fertility was found among women who already had one daughter as well as at least one son. The effects of sex preference on fertility preferences and behaviour were measured using an index developed by Arnold (1985). The results suggest that while sex preference remained largely unchanged during the study period, its effect on contraceptive use declined and its impact on actual fertility remained modest and fairly stable.

The influence of wife's education on fertility in rural Egypt

1976 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atef M Khalifa
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Pregnancy Loss ◽  
Inverse Relationship ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Inverse Association ◽  
Live Births ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Desired Family Size

Based on survey data from rural Egypt, the effects of the wife's education on fertility and family planning were investigated and shown to be very important. In accordance with the results of most other studies, there is an inverse relationship with the number of live births. The wife's education is also shown to influence attitudes towards family size, spacing, and knowledge and approval of contraceptives, all of which lead to a high proportion of contraceptive use and help to achieve the desired family size. There was also a clear inverse association between the wife's education and pregnancy loss and infant mortality; these latter two variables showed positive correlations with the number of live births.(Summary in Arabic on p. 60)

DISAGREEMENT IN SPOUSAL REPORTS OF CURRENT CONTRACEPTIVE USE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 779-796 ◽  
Author(s):  
STAN BECKER ◽  
MIAN B. HOSSAIN ◽  
ELIZABETH THOMSON
Keyword(s):  
Health Surveys ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Demographic And Health Surveys ◽  
Sex Partners ◽  
Recent Period ◽  
Survey Question ◽  
Contraceptive Prevalence ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Using Data

Contraceptive prevalence is a key variable estimated from Demographic and Health Surveys. But the prevalence estimated from reports of husbands differs widely from that estimated for wives. In this research, using data from six Demographic and Health Surveys of sub-Saharan Africa, reports from spouses in monogamous couples with no other reported sex partners in the recent period are examined. Agreement ranged from 47% to 82%, but among couples in which one or both reported use, the ‘both’ category represented less than half in all nations except Zimbabwe. Husbands generally had higher reports of condoms, periodic abstinence and pills but fewer reports of the IUD, injections and female sterilization. Either discussion of family planning with the spouse and/or higher socioeconomic status was associated with agreement in most of the surveys. Ambiguities in the survey question regarding current use need to be reduced, perhaps with an added probe question for non-permanent methods.

Predictors of Permanent Housing for Sheltered Homeless Families

1996 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Rocha ◽  
Alice K. Johnson ◽  
Kay Young McChesney ◽  
William H. Butterfield
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Homeless Families ◽  
Permanent Housing ◽  
The Family ◽  
Over Time

The authors analyze 10 years of data on homelessness to determine the characteristics of homeless families most likely to find permanent housing after leaving a shelter environment. They studied 1,156 families from 1983 to 1992 to determine where these families go after leaving the shelter and whether the pattern changed over time. Logistic regression analysis found that the larger the family size and being African American were factors that predicted a decreased likelihood of finding permanent housing. Families with one child were 1.5 times more likely to find permanent housing than were families with three children, and whites were 1.9 times more likely to find permanent housing than were African Americans. Furthermore, homeless shelter residents were five times more likely to find permanent housing in 1983 than in 1992, regardless of demographic predictors. Practice and policy implications are discussed.

Effectiveness of contraception in Belgium: results of the Second National Fertility Survey, 1971 (NEGO II)

1977 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. L. Cliquet ◽  
R. Schoenmaeckers ◽  
L. Klinkenborg
Keyword(s):  
Family Size ◽  
Birth Interval ◽  
Fertility Survey ◽  
Age Group ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sample Spacing ◽  
Contraceptive Effectiveness ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Desired Family Size ◽  
Reliable Methods

SummaryThe percentage of accidental pregnancies, the Pearl pregnancy rate and the life-table method have all been used to study the effectiveness of contraception in Belgium, using data from the Second National Fertility Survey (1971), which covered 3397 Belgian women in the age group 30–34 years. Though all three methods yield generally similar results, it is only by using the third method that we can obtain in an optimum way changes in contraceptive effectiveness by birth order and birth interval.Generally, contraceptive effectiveness is low, the cumulative failure rate for the first 12 months of all intervals amounting to 18%. This holds even for intrinsically extremely reliable methods, such as the pill (4%). The efficiency of contraception, however, improves with increasing duration of marriage. This is attributable not only to a shift towards more effective methods, but also to a better application of less reliable methods, such as withdrawal. It remains questionable whether the increase in effectiveness, especially of a method such as withdrawal, is not partially based on induced abortion.The findings also clearly reveal the dual aspect of the contraceptive behaviour in the sample: spacing until desired family size is achieved, and prevention thereafter.The efficiency of contraception decreases with increasing family size, whatever birth interval is considered.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Production Efficiency in a New Alternative Enterprise: The Case of the Ratite Industry

1997 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 409-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Gillespie ◽  
Alvin Schupp ◽  
Gary Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Efficiency Measures ◽  
Using Data

AbstractTechnical efficiency measures are calculated for ratite producers using data envelopment analysis. Regression analysis is then used to determine producer characteristics that are likely to lead to higher technical efficiencies. Results indicate that the most technically efficient ratite producers in Louisiana are not producing at the benchmark efficiency level advocated by the industry. Producer experience with other livestock, specialization, and labor are factors likely to lead to higher technical efficiency. These results are expected to hold for most new, alternative livestock enterprises.

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