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YEAR: 1991

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Impact of child mortality on family size desires and family planning

practice among white-collar workers.

AUTHORS

Srivastava JN

SOURCE

JOURNAL OF FAMILY WELFARE. 1991 Dec;37(4):19-26.

ABSTRACT

This study examines the impact of child mortality on completed family size desire and current use of family planning

methods among white-collar workers in Lucknow city, India. High family size desire and low acceptance of family

planning represent the 2 main factors underlying India's high fertility. The study attempts to test 3 hypotheses

concerning the impact of child survival: 1) couples who have experienced the loss of a child are less likely to want

to cease having children than couples who have experience no loss; 2) couples who have lost a child tend to want

larger completed families than couples who have not lost a child; and 3) motivated by "child replacement" and "child

insurance," couples who have lost a child in the early stage of childbearing are less likely to practice family

planning than couples who have not experienced a loss. Researchers analyzed the data of 1085 currently married

white-collar workers in Lucknow who had at least 1 living child. In the analysis, researchers controlled the influence

of socioeconomic factors such as religion, caste, wife's education, and income. The results of the study

corroborated the hypotheses. Those couples who had lost a child tended to move to higher birth orders for child

replacement purposes, and tended to have significantly larger desired family sizes than couples who had not lost a

child. Finally, the loss of a child generally had a negative impact on the use of family planning irrespective of the

socioeconomic level and the mother's age. The findings illustrate the importance of controlling infant and child

mortality in order to facilitate the acceptance of smaller families and family planning. (PubHealth.info Document ID:

CONT3T 2060-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Impact of child mortality on family size desires and family

planning practice among white-collar workers.", is(are) Srivastava JN. The source of this article is "JOURNAL OF

FAMILY WELFARE. 1991 Dec;37(4):19-26.". This article was published in 1991 in English language(s).

(PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT3T 2060-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 12060

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