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Demography (2007) 44 (3): 603–621.
Published: 01 August 2007
...Jennifer Manlove; Suzanne Ryan; Kerry Franzetta Abstract By using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we examine how adolescent relationship characteristics, partner attributes, and sexual relationship histories are associated with contraceptive use and consistency...
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Demography (2002) 39 (4): 713–738.
Published: 01 November 2002
...Jere R. Behrman; Hans-Peter Kohler; Susan Cotts Watkins Abstract The impacts of social networks on changes in contraception in rural Kenya are investigated using special data from a longitudinal household survey. An analytic model, informed by detailed knowledge of the setting, yielded estimates...
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Demography (2002) 39 (2): 251–267.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Sajeda Amin; Alaka Malwade Basu; Rob Stephenson Abstract This article promotes a more complete understanding of social change by analyzing spatial patterns of contraceptive use in Bangladesh and the contiguous state of West Bengal in India. Multilevel analyses that control for variations...
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 421–434.
Published: 01 November 1998
...Carol E. Kaufman Abstract In this paper, patterns of contraceptive use among black South African women in the late 1980s are examined. Multilevel logit models are used to evaluate the extent to which segregation of the African population into homelands gave rise to uneven patterns of contraceptive...
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Demography (1999) 36 (1): 23–40.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Thomas A. Mroz; Kenneth A. Bollen; Ilene S. Speizer; Dominic J. Mancini Abstract We examine how informants’reports on community perceptions of the quality and accessibility offamily planningfacilities relate to the use of modern contraceptives by individuals in rural Tanzania. Using information...
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Demography (1995) 32 (1): 111–131.
Published: 01 February 1995
... on contraceptive use, based on data from the 1988 Tunisia Demographic and Health Survey. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1995 1995 Probit Regression Concentration Parameter Additional Child Monte Carlo Experiment Simultaneous Equation Model References Amemiya T...
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Demography (1996) 33 (1): 12–23.
Published: 01 February 1996
... to a multilevel framework that allows for data at different levels of aggregation. The model is illustrated with data from the 1988 Chinese National Survey of Fertility and Contraceptive Prevalence, which collected complete contraceptive histories. Women may stop using a method of contraception for a number...
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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 (1991) 28 (1): 65–81.
Published: 01 February 1991
...Deborah S. DeGraff Abstract This article analyzes the determinants of contraceptive use in Bangladesh, focusing on the roles of demand for additional children and of family planning service supply. Data from the Matlab Family Planning Health Services Project are used to examine the contributions...
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Demography (1991) 28 (1): 83–99.
Published: 01 February 1991
...Wamucii Njogu Abstract This study uses the 1977-1978 Kenya Fertility Survey and the 1989 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey to examine trends and determinants of contraceptive use in Kenya. A substantial increase in contraceptive use occurred in Kenya over the decade. Yet although the increase...
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Demography (1984) 21 (4): 559–574.
Published: 01 November 1984
...Barbara Entwisle; Albert I. Hermalin; Peerasit Kamnuansilpa; Apichat Chamratrithirong Abstract This paper assesses the ways in which the availability of family planning program outlets influences the likelihood of contraceptive use in rural Thailand. It focuses on a village-level measure of actual...
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Demography (1987) 24 (3): 361–373.
Published: 01 August 1987
... Fertility, and Contraceptive Use . Berkeley : University of California . Baker , R. J. , & Neider , J. A. ( 1978 ). The GLIM System . Oxford : Numerical Algorithms Group . Bangladesh Fertility Survey, 1975: First Country Report . ( 1978 ). Dacca : Population Control and Family...
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Demography (1970) 7 (4): 459–465.
Published: 01 November 1970
...T. R. Balakrishnan; J. D. Allingham; J. F. Kantner Abstract Multiple decrement life table technique is used to analyze the oral contraceptive use in a sample of once married women in Metropolitan Toronto. The overall pattern in the Canadian data is found to be essentially similar to that found...
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 873–898.
Published: 19 May 2020
...David K. Guilkey; Veronica Escamilla; Lisa M. Calhoun; Ilene S. Speizer Abstract This study uses data gathered for an evaluation of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation–funded initiative designed to increase modern contraceptive use in select urban areas of Nigeria. When the initiative...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 27–36.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Julia A. Behrman; Michelle A. Eilers; Isabel H. McLoughlin Brooks; Abigail Weitzman 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...
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Demography (1997) 34 (3): 385–398.
Published: 01 August 1997
...Deborah S. Degraff; Richard E. Bilsborrow; David K. Guilkey Abstract We use household and community data from the Philippines to estimate a multilevel model of contraceptive use. We go beyond previous efforts in this field by developing a structural model that recognizes joint endogeneity...
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1433–1452.
Published: 04 August 2012
...Krystale E. Littlejohn Abstract The unintended pregnancy rate in the United States remains high, and there are large race and education differences in unintended pregnancy and fertility. These differences make it important to study race and education differences in contraceptive behavior. Using...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2057–2084.
Published: 30 November 2020
...Elly Field Abstract Decades of research have attempted to understand the paradox of stubbornly high unintended pregnancy rates despite widespread use of contraception. Much of this research has focused on socioeconomic disparities in rates of unintended pregnancy, finding that economically...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2003–2034.
Published: 08 September 2020
...Yasamin Kusunoki; Jennifer S. Barber Abstract We investigate the immediate social context of contraceptive behaviors: specifically, the intimate relationship. We use the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life (RDSL) study (2008–2012), based on a random sample of 1,003 women ages 18–19 residing...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 917–937.
Published: 22 March 2014
...Seema Jayachandran Abstract Previous studies suggest that access to modern contraceptives can reduce breast-feeding rates because women who had been using breast-feeding to avoid pregnancy substitute away from it. This article shows that contraceptive use can also have a positive effect on breast...
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