The contraception-fertility link in sub-Saharan Africa and in other developing countries

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Westoff, Charles F. Bankole, Akinrinola S.
Copyright Year	2001
Abstract	This issue of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Analytical Studies series evaluates several hypotheses that account for the strong negative association between the proportion of women using contraception and the fertility rate of the population. It also attempts to explain why the correlation between contraceptive prevalence and the fertility rate has been so much lower in sub- Saharan Africa than in Asia and in Latin America. Data derived from the DHS conducted in 59 developing countries between 1985 and 1998 were disaggregated into 451 regions of these countries. Regional analyses results are quite consistent with those at the national level; both approaches clearly show a much lower association between the level of contraceptive practice and the total fertility rate in sub-Saharan Africa. Evaluations of a variety of explanations indicate that the most important consideration appears to be the fact that the population in sub- Saharan Africa were clearly at the beginning of their fertility transition and were being compared with Asian and Latin American populations at much more advanced stages of the transition.
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