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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2057–2084.
Published: 30 November 2020
... by access barriers and lower contraceptive efficacy among women experiencing hardship. Using structural equation modeling, I find that these mediators significantly explain the relationship between hardship and risky contraceptive behaviors, suggesting that hardship creates mental and resource constraints...
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Demography (1984) 21 (4): 647–653.
Published: 01 November 1984
... countries. Accompanying this growth has been an increase in use of life table methods. Demographers have used life tables for several centuries to analyze mortality and for several decades to look at topics such as contraceptive efficacy and employment. Increasingly, life ta- bles are now being used...
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Demography (1973) 10 (4): 495–506.
Published: 01 November 1973
... at- tempt to measure contraceptive efficacy prior to the first conception. Yet it would be too facile to say that there is a right Measurement of the Dependent Variable The circumstance that the universe is defined with respect to both age and marital status as criteria causes major difficulties...
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Demography (1969) 6 (4): 445–454.
Published: 01 November 1969
... more or fewer than originally desired. Nevertheless, data on contraceptive efficiency indicate that desires after the birth of the second child constitute meaningful goals in terms of which the respondents regulate their subsequent behavior—efficacy of contraceptive practice shows substantial...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 273–294.
Published: 01 February 2021
... contraceptive pills Risk compensation theory Access to a range of contraceptive methods is an integral part of quality reproductive healthcare. Given access, the choice between different methods of contraception may be driven by a range of factors, including availability, efficacy, individual...
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Demography (1969) 6 (4): 435–444.
Published: 01 November 1969
... proportions with num- ber failure, on the other hand, the im- plicit difference in contraceptive efficacy is even greater (11 percent per annum as against 5 percent), not because the Black wives desired more children, but because they were more than a year younger at interview than the Whites. These remarks...
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Demography (1978) 15 (4): 433–458.
Published: 01 November 1978
...- 433 434 DEMOGRAPHY, volume 15, number 4, November 1978 nancy intervals in which contraception may be used (the study of contraceptive efficacy) and intervals in which con- traception is not used (the study of fe- cundability). The measurement proce- dures appropriate to these detailed inquiries...
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Demography (1986) 23 (2): 199–216.
Published: 01 May 1986
...Barbara Entwisle; William M. Mason; Albert I. Hermalin Abstract Using World Fertility Survey data for 15 developing countries, we estimate an equation in which the dependent variable—whether the respondent has ever used an efficient contraceptive method—depends on the respondent’s education...
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Demography (1982) 19 (1): 65–78.
Published: 01 February 1982
... education, a com- mon proxy for the opportunity costs of children, and contraceptive efficacy to be taken into account. Furthermore, the longitudinal nature of the study allows completed fertility in 1977 to be exam- ined while taking into account initial family size expectations in 1962. The supposition...
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1451–1475.
Published: 05 July 2017
... childbearing had substantially higher hazards of fertility postponement and especially of marital fertility, even after controlling for race/ethnicity, mother’s educational attainment, family of origin intactness, self-efficacy and planning ability, perceived future prospects, and markers of own educational...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1493–1516.
Published: 13 August 2011
... contraceptive use. If women see little cost to unintended fertility—for example, if they have low chances for securing high-earning jobs and thus low opportunity costs to childbearing—they may devote little effort to contracepting effectively. Individual psychological characteristics such as self-efficacy...
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Demography (1988) 25 (1): 53–70.
Published: 01 February 1988
... on differences in contraceptive efficacy (Grady et al., 1983; Hammerslough, 1984; Schirm et al., 1982; Vaughanet al., 1977). Bothapproaches suggest that contraceptive choice is a critical intermediate variable, and an understanding of racial differences in contraceptive choice may shed light on the question...
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Demography (1979) 16 (4): 485–492.
Published: 01 November 1979
... on mortality levels of eliminating certain causes of death, to aspects of fe- cundability and contraceptive efficacy, and to the lifetime probabilities of various marriage and divorce conditions, labor force activities, and other social processes. Most importantly, with the greater avail- ability of elaborate...
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Demography (1973) 10 (4): 591–597.
Published: 01 November 1973
... and Westoff, 1971) and simply documents in another man- ner the role in fertility experience of methods of contraception over and above fertility plans. It is of note that Cath- olics who used the rhythm method were almost as likely to have a live birth as those who used no method at all. The low efficacy...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 549–572.
Published: 21 February 2019
... Cumulative number of sex partners in study (1–13) 20,059 1.80 1.52 Pregnant 20,059 .10 Cumulative number of pregnancies in lifetime (0–10) 20,059 .53 .97 Psychological Orientation Toward Sex and Contraceptive Use Perceived self-efficacy (0–100) 20,059 78.85 19.57 Opposition...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2271–2293.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of undesired pregnancy, including lack of access to preferred contraceptive methods ( Burke et al. 2020 ; Field 2020 ), low contraceptive self-efficacy ( England et al. 2016 ), and perceived subfecundity ( Gemmill 2018 ), this phenomenon persists. Recent work shows that most young women want to avoid...
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 487–509.
Published: 01 November 1981
... and a decline for the latter. In the second place, all of the changes are substantialin magnitude. This deserves emphasis for R UU and RX. Previous work on the subject of contraceptive efficacy has emphasized that couples who are using to terminate are much more effective contraceptors than those who are using...
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Demography (1992) 29 (3): 409–429.
Published: 01 August 1992
... drugs N Noncontraceptor 28% 48% 50% 77% (211) Contraceptor 7% 12% 13% 17% (524) Ratio 4.0 4.0 3.8 4.5 a 1982 for alcohol; 1984 for cigarettes, marijuana and other illicit drugs. Similarly, differential contraceptive efficacy does not seem to explain the relationship between drug use and pregnancy among...
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Demography (1975) 12 (4): 573–580.
Published: 01 November 1975
... contraception was used both among women intending to terminate and women intending to delay child- bearing. How effective are these methods? Quite frankly, the kinds of data that we collect permit only the crudest assessment of the efficacy of contraceptive methods. We have calculated a measure labelled "ex...
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Contraceptive Method Choice Among Youth in the United States: The Importance of Relationship Context
Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1451–1472.
Published: 02 September 2011
... of the relationship and therefore varies across relationships), religious denomination, religiosity, family structure, parental education (mother’s and father’s), household income, perceived risk of pregnancy or AIDS, perceived severity of pregnancy, contraceptive self-efficacy, and age at first sexual intercourse...
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