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YEAR: 1996

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Reproductive attitudes and family planning among the aboriginal peoples of

Alaska, Kamchatka, and Chukotka: the results of comparative research.

AUTHORS

Pika AI; Stern PR

SOURCE

ARCTIC ANTHROPOLOGY. 1996;33(2):50-61.

ABSTRACT

This study compares and examines family planning attitudes, fertility, and contraceptive use in two regions of Alaska

in the US and in Chukotka and Kamchatka in the Russian Far East. Demographic transition differed between

regions. The cultural survival was threatened in both populations, but for different reasons. This collaborative study

between two government bodies includes a health survey conducted during 1993-95 in 18 native villages. The

Alaskan sample included 189 Inupiat Eskimos in the communities of Kotzebue, Buckland, Diring, and Kivalina in

Northwest Municipal Borough and 126 Aleuts in the Aleutian-Pribiloff Island villages of Unalaska, St. Paul, Sand

Point, and Akutan. The Russian sample included 307 Itelmen, Kamchadal, Even, and Koryak aboriginal people from

three administrative districts of Kamchatka Oblast and the Koryak Autonomous Okrug and 98 Chukchi and Siberian

Eskimos from the Providenski district of Chukotka. Among this Bering Sea indigenous population, 75.4% identified

themselves as members of an aboriginal group. 509 out of 720 adults were women. 123 lived outside the sample

villages, of which 17.2% reported being born in Alaska or Kamchatka or Chukotka. 60.5% of the 205 newcomers were

non-natives. 71 lived alone. 3.2% desired no children at all. Over 75% considered 1-3 children ideal. 14.9% of

natives and 5% of non-natives considered 5 children ideal. 25% of 159 Alaskan women and 50% of 277 Siberian

women reported never use of contraception. Consistent current contraceptive use was reported by 1 in 7 Siberian

women and by almost 50% of Alaskan women. Contraceptive preference and use were unrelated to native or non-

native status. The mean number of live births was 3.7 among native Alaskan women and 2.2 among Siberian

women. The mean number of pregnancies was 4.5 among Siberian women, and abortion averaged 1.9 per woman.

(PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 2064-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Reproductive attitudes and family planning among the

aboriginal peoples of Alaska, Kamchatka, and Chukotka: the results of comparative research.", is(are) Pika AI; Stern

PR. The source of this article is "ARCTIC ANTHROPOLOGY. 1996;33(2):50-61.". This article was published in 1996

in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 2064-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info)

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