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YEAR: 1991

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Husbands' and wives' reports on fertility preferences and family planning in

Ghana and Kenya.

AUTHORS

Ekouevi K; Fegan G; Barrere B

SOURCE

[Unpublished] 1991. Presented at the International Union for the Scientific Study

of Population [IUSSP] Committee on Comparative Analysis of Fertility and

University of Zimbabwe Seminar on the Course of Fertility Transition in Sub-

Saharan Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe, 19-22 November 1991. 24, [2] p.

ABSTRACT

Data on 1010 marital pairs from Ghana (1988 Demographic and Health Survey [DHS] and on 1188 marital pairs from

Kenya (primarily 1989 DHS) were analyzed to compare wives' and husbands' responses on fertility preferences and

family planning issues and to determine the extent to which these responses agree. Spouses in Ghana agreed more

often than did those in Kenya, e.g., spouses in Ghana agreed at least 75% on 5 of 6 questions compared with 3 of 6

for those in Kenya. Agreement on current use of modern contraception was quite high in both countries (94% in

ghana and 86% in Kenya), but agreement on current use of traditional methods was not as high (86% in Ghana and

66% in Kenya). this indicated less communication and cooperation among couples using traditional methods. The

lowest level of agreement in both countries centered around ideal family size (24% in Ghana and 34% in Kenya).

Otherwise, range of variation in level of agreement was 75-94% in Ghana and 66-88% in Kenya. The odds of

agreement and gamma statistic showed a strong association between spouses' reports. Yet the Chi-square test

indicated that the wives' reports were significantly different from those of the husbands'. Thus their reports could not

be substituted interchangeably with that of the couple. Even though couples in Ghana had a higher overall level of

agreement than those in Kenya, Kenyan couples were more likely to have positive agreement, e.g., 45% of spouses

in Kenya did not want any more children compared with only 14% in Ghana, and 17% of spouses in Kenya agreed on

use of modern contraception while only 4% did in Ghana. These results indicate that marital fertility models should

integrate husbands' characteristics and views. Thus researchers should systematically collect data on husbands'

views. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT3T 2053-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Husbands' and wives' reports on fertility preferences and

family planning in Ghana and Kenya.", is(are) Ekouevi K; Fegan G; Barrere B. The source of this article is

"[Unpublished] 1991. Presented at the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population [IUSSP] Committee

on Comparative Analysis of Fertility and University of Zimbabwe Seminar on the Course of Fertility Transition in Sub-

Saharan Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe, 19-22 November 1991. 24, [2] p.". This article was published in 1991 in English

language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT3T 2053-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 12053

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