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  • Title: [Fertility, contraception, and infant mortality in the rural area of Piura].
    Author: Sullon A.
    Journal: Rev Peru Poblac; 1993; (3):89-120. PubMed ID: 12319003.
    Abstract:
    The 1989 Rural Health Survey provided information on the fertility and mortality of the rural Andean area of the Department of Piura. 2221 women aged 15-49 were interviewed. The sample included 939 households of agricultural producers, 471 households of agricultural wage workers, and 471 of nonagricultural wage workers. 94.1% of the agricultural producers were considered subsistence farmers because they had fewer than 12 hectares of land. The survey population belonged to impoverished social strata, but the nonagricultural wage workers were of a somewhat higher socioeconomic status. The wives of 26.6% of the nonagricultural wage workers had at least primary education, compared to 10% of the wives of agricultural workers. 73% of the houses of agricultural workers of both types but only 50% of the houses of nonagricultural wage workers lacked potable water and a nondirt floor and had at least four persons sleeping in each room. The total fertility rate was 6.65 for agricultural producers, 6.74 for agricultural wage workers, and 5.72 for nonagricultural wage workers. 87.6% of nonagricultural wage workers knew about contraception, compared to 76.5% of agricultural producers and 80.9% of agricultural wage workers. A contraceptive method was used by 23.5% of agricultural producers, 23.9% of agricultural wage workers, and 37.9% of nonagricultural wage workers. The infant mortality rate was estimated at 80.7/1000 live births in Peru and 94.6/1000 in Piura in 1990. Estimates of the infant mortality rates using different variants of the Brass method in the three groups yielded similar results for all three groups. The estimate using the Brass method was 123/1000 for the agricultural producers and nonagricultural wage workers and 120 for the agricultural wage workers. The lack of variability in the mortality rates may have been due to the generally isolated, impoverished, and marginal condition of the environment shared by all three groups.
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