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YEAR: 1973

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

A family planning survey in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

AUTHORS

Elahi VK

SOURCE

Canadian Journal of Public Health 64(6): 515-520. November-December 1973.

(Summary in FR).

ABSTRACT

From April to June 1971, 300 married female heads of household aged 15-44 were interviewed in a Halifax, Nova

Scotia study assessing family planning knowledge, attitudes, and practices. The term female head of household

referred to the responsible female in the household. 98, 101, and 101 women were of low, middle, and high

socioeconomic status (SES), respectively. While the percentage of respondents currently seeing a medical person

about family planning decreased with increasing SES, the percentage who had at some time consulted a medical

person about family planning was highest in the high and lowest in the middle group. In the low, middle, and high

groups the numbers of children considered to be too large were 7.1, 6.1, and 5.5, respectively. The low group

seemed the least able to control and the most disgruntled with family size. About 2/3 of the fertile couples were

currently using birth control other than sterilization, this percentage increasing with SES, age, and level of education.

Among the 132 respondents practicing no birth control, reasons given were surgical or natural sterility (36.6%),

pregnancy (16%), wanting to become pregnant (13%), and religious or moral (3.1%). The percentages of Roman

Catholic and Protestant respondents currently using birth control were about the same. Methods of contraception

included the pill (49.4%), rhythm method (14.5%), IUD (13.9%), and condom (7.8%). Women of the high group were

most knowledgable and those of the middle group were least knowledgable about the time during a menstrual cycle

when a woman has the greatest chance of becoming pregnant. In general, the data indicate that problems may exist

especially with family planning services available to the low group. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT8T 68-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "A family planning survey in Halifax, Nova Scotia.", is(are)

Elahi VK. The source of this article is "Canadian Journal of Public Health 64(6): 515-520. November-December 1973.

(Summary in FR).". This article was published in 1973 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID:

CONT8T 68-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 35068

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