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YEAR: 1994

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Women's employment, education, contraception and abortion in Kinshasa.

AUTHORS

Shapiro D; Tambasha BO

SOURCE

University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University, Population

Research Institute, 1994 Jan. [3], 45 p. Working Paper No. 1994-05

ABSTRACT

The research aim was to examine the effects of employment, education, and other factors on contraceptive use and

incidence of abortion among urban women in Kinshasa, Zaire. Kinshasa has an estimated 10% of Zaire's total

population, and 40% of the women work; major demographic groups are the Bakongo- and Kikongo-speaking

populations. Fertility in Kinshasa tends to be higher than for Zaire as a whole. Three independent organizations

provide family planning services in Kinshasa, but level of use was considered low, based on a situation analysis,

and primarily for birth spacing. The 1991 Contraceptive Prevalence Survey cited abortion as the most widely used

method. Data were obtained from a 1990 household survey of 2400 women, aged 13-49 years, for the descriptive and

weighted logistic regression. Variables included completed education level, employment status, age, enrollment

status, economic status, marital status, fertility, desire for another child, migration status, religion, and ethnic group.

The results showed that the determinants of contraceptive behavior of ever sexually active women, not currently

pregnant, were increased schooling and employment status as self employed or employees. Other significant

factors were age and high economic status. Contraceptive use was less likely among married women who have

been in more than one union than among those in first unions. Among previously but not currently married women

and never married women, contraceptive use was less likely. Greater contraceptive use was related to higher parity.

Contraceptive use was less likely among women who migrated within the past 10 years than among nonmigrants, but

the differences disappear with increasing age. NonCatholic groups have greater likelihood of contraceptive use.

The likelihood of modern contraceptive use increased with levels of schooling beyond the primary level. Use

increased with age up the age of 39 years. Determinants of abortion were educational attainment; women with higher

educational levels, self employment, and higher economic status showed greater likelihood of reporting abortion.

Migrants were less likely to report an abortion. Kimbanquists and those without religion were more likely, and

Protestants and other religions were less likely to report an abortion compared to Catholics. (PubHealth.info

Document ID: CONT2T 4505-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Women's employment, education, contraception and

abortion in Kinshasa.", is(are) Shapiro D; Tambasha BO. The source of this article is "University Park,

Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University, Population Research Institute, 1994 Jan. [3], 45 p. Working Paper No.

1994-05". This article was published in 1994 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 4505-

06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 9505

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