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  • Title: Correlates of fertility behaviour in Pakistan.
    Author: Yusuf F, Rukanuddin AR.
    Journal: Biol Soc; 1989 Jun; 6(2):61-8. PubMed ID: 12282412.
    Abstract:
    This study analyzes some recent data on 7405 currently married women aged 15-49 from the 1984 Pakistan Contraceptive Prevalence Survey on demographic, socioeconomic, and family planning correlates of fertility in Pakistan. Average parity, a commonly used indicator of cumulative fertility, calculated as the average number of children born per woman, is used as the dependent variable. Since the age of a woman and her fertility have a high positive correlation (r = +.69), the effects of all the independent variables (demographic, socioeconomic, and family planning) were studied after controlling for variations in the age distributions of women in different categories of these variables. Finally, an attempt is made to fit a series of multiple regression models. The object is to study the effects of selected independent variables on the cumulative fertility levels in Pakistan, for both rural and urban segments of the national population. Age at marriage has a substantial effect on fertility in Pakistan. The finding that women who report no childhood mortality also have lower fertility is rather new. Education is the only socioeconomic variable which had a significant lowering effect on fertility. The finding that the higher-parity women are more likely to have both knowledge of, and a favorable attitude towards, family planning and a higher prevalence of contraceptive use indicates that such women are willing to use contraception when they have achieved their desired family size.
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