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  • Title: Morocco 1995: results from the Demographic and Health Survey.
    Journal: Stud Fam Plann; 1996; 27(6):344-8. PubMed ID: 8986033.
    Abstract:
    Summarized are findings from the 1995 Morocco Demographic and Health Survey for fertility, contraceptive use, breast feeding, infant mortality, immunization, and diarrhea morbidity. Fertility was an estimated 3.3 children/woman during 1992-95 among the nationally representative sample of 4753 women aged 15-49 years. Fertility was 4.5 children/woman in rural areas and 2.2 children/woman in urban areas. The highest fertility was 4.0 children/woman among uneducated women. The mean ideal number of children increased from 2.6 to 4.2 children/woman as age increased. The mean ideal number of children increased from 2.6 to 4.7 as the number of living children increased from 0 to over 6 children. 53.3% desired a stop to childbearing. The number of women desiring a stop to childbearing increased from 35.6% among women with 2 living children to 88.7% among women with over 6 children. 42.4% of currently married women used modern contraception. The pill was the most widely known and ever used method of contraception. 34.9% of women who never used and 15.1% of women who ever used contraception did not intend to use contraception in the future. 46.7% of women were nonusers because they wanted children. 10.4% of nonusers had a hysterectomy or were menopausal. 10.9% were nonusers for health reasons. The median duration of breast feeding was 14.6 months and much lower among urban women and women with more than a secondary education.
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