Fertility Preferences and Contraceptive Change in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

ABSTRACT: The past four decades have witnessed an enormous increase in modern contraception in most low- and middle-income countries. We examine the extent to which this change can be attributed to changes in fertility preferences versus fuller implementation of fertility preferences, a distinction at the heart of intense debates about the returns to investments in family planning services. We analyze national survey data from five major survey programs: World Fertility Surveys, Demographic Health Surveys, Reproductive Health Surveys, Pan-Arab Project for Child Development or Family Health, and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. We perform regression decomposition of change between successive surveys in 59 countries (330 decompositions in total). Change in preferences accounts for little of the cha

SUBMITTER: Ibitoye M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9219575 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature