International Migration and Modern Contraceptive Use: A Research Note on African Migrants to France.

ABSTRACT: This research note presents a multisited analysis of migration and contraceptive use by standardizing and integrating a sample of African migrants in France from six West and Central African countries in the Trajectoires et Origines survey with a sample of women living in the same six African countries in the Demographic and Health Surveys. Descriptive analyses indicate that the contraceptive use of migrants more closely aligns with that of native French women than with that of women from origin countries. In particular, migrants report dramatically higher use of long-acting reversible contraceptives and short-acting hormonal methods and lower use of traditional methods than do women in the countries of origin. Although migrants differ from women in the countries of origin on observed char

SUBMITTER: Behrman JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9127436 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature