Women's decision-making and contraceptive use in Pakistan: an analysis of Demographic and Health Survey data.

ABSTRACT: This study examines the association of decision-making with contraceptive use along with other measures of women's empowerment and the gender context. We use data on currently married women from the Demographic and Health Survey conducted in Pakistan in 2017-2018. We contrast patterns in modern contraception with traditional contraception and examine specific modern methods. Husband's characteristics do not factor strongly in women's modern contraceptive use. Contraceptive decision-making is more pertinent to women's modern contraceptive use than household decision-making and is inhibited when husbands are the primary decision-makers of contraceptive decisions. In contrast, joint decision-making facilitates overall modern contraceptive use and the use of condoms in particular. Contraceptiv

SUBMITTER: MacQuarrie KLD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8820788 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature