Abstract
This is cross sectional study based on 304 households (couples) with wives age less than 48 years, chosen from urban locality (city Lahore). Fourteen religious, demographic and socio-economic factors of categorical nature like husband education, wife education, husband’s monthly income, occupation of husband, household size, husband-wife discussion, number of living children, desire for more children, duration of marriage, present age of wife, age of wife at marriage, offering of prayers, political view, and religiously decisions were taken to understand acceptance of family planning. Multivariate log-linear analysis was applied to identify association pattern and interrelationship among factors. The logit model was applied to explore the relationship between predictor factors and dependent factor, and to explore which are the factors upon which acceptance of family planning is highly depending. Log-linear analysis demonstrate that preference of contraceptive use was found to be consistently associated with factors Husband-Wife discussion, Desire for more children, No. of children, Political view and Duration of married life. While Husband’s monthly income, Occupation of husband, Age of wife at marriage and Offering of prayers resulted in no statistical explanation of adoption of family planning methods.
Highlights
Pakistan has been experiencing rapid population growth since second half of century due to the reduction mortality and persistent high birth rate
In order to see the combined effect of factor Political view of husband (PV), N, D, Duration of marriage (DU) and HW on family planning methods (FP), we have found the odds of acceptance of family planning
We can see in serial no. 2 of table 7 the probability of approving the family planning is 41% less than probability of disapproving the contraceptives, with the combined effect of given levels of factors PV, N, D and HW in order to investigate that which are factors upon which the variable FP is highly depending, we have found measure of association using entropy and concentration criteria by dropping each factor one by one and watch the effect of dropping this factor upon dispersion explained by logit model
Summary
Pakistan has been experiencing rapid population growth since second half of century due to the reduction mortality and persistent high birth rate. The acceptance of family planning in Pakistan is determined by various factors and may vary between difference regiments of population according to various socioeconomic, cultural and economic factors and is generally associated with various aspects of economic, religious and social organization. Hakim (1995) examined that use of family planning methods in Pakistan is determined by various factors and may vary between difference segments if population according to various socio-economic, cultural and economic factors. The author used logit models to determine the effect of the desire for no more children on the current use of family planning methods. To determine the prevalence and sociodemographic factors associated with family planning practices among currently married women in Khairpur District, Sindh, Pakistan. More than four living children, exposure to family planning messages on TV, and husband’s approval were the main factors associated with the use of family planning methods
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