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   Socioeconomic Correlates of Contraceptive Use Among the Ethnic Tribal Women of Bangladesh: Does Sex Preference Matter?  
   
نویسنده Kamal S. M. Mostafa ,Hassan Che Hashim
منبع Journal Of Family And Reproductive Health - 2013 - دوره : 7 - شماره : 2 - صفحه:73 -85
چکیده    Objective: to examine the relationship between socioeconomic factors affecting contraceptive use among tribal women of bangladesh with focusing on son preference over daughter. materials and methods: the study used data gathered through a cross sectional survey on four tribal communities resided in the rangamati hill district of the chittagong hill tracts, bangladesh. a multistage random sampling procedure was applied to collect data from 865 currently married women of whom 806 women were currently married, non-pregnant and had at least one living child, which are the basis of this study. the information was recorded in a pre-structured questionnaire. simple cross tabulation, chi-square tests and logistic regression analyses were performed to analyzing data. results: the contraceptive prevalence rate among the study tribal women was 73%. the multivariate analyses yielded quantitatively important and reliable estimates of likelihood of contraceptive use. findings revealed that after controlling for other variables, the likelihood of contraceptive use was found not to be significant among women with at least one son than those who had only daughters, indicating no preference of son over daughter. multivariate logistic regression analysis suggests that home visitations by family planning workers, tribal identity, place of residence, husband’s education, and type of family, television ownership, electricity connection in the household and number of times married are important determinants of any contraceptive method use among the tribal women. conclusion: the contraceptive use rate among the disadvantaged tribal women was more than that of the national level. door-step delivery services of modern methods should be reached and available targeting the poor and remote zones.
کلیدواژه Bangladesh ,Contraceptive Use ,Ethnic Tribal Women ,Sex Preference ,Logistic Regression
آدرس University Of Malaya, Unit For The Enhancement Of Academic Performance, Malaysia. Islamic University, Department Of Mathematics, Bangladesh, Islamic University, Department Of Mathematics, Bangladesh
 
     
   
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