The perplexing links between contraceptive sterilization and (dis)advantage in ten low-fertility countries
| Autor: | Mieke C. W. Eeckhaut, Megan M. Sweeney |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male History Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Population Population Dynamics Developing country Fertility Article 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Pregnancy Political science Surveys and Questionnaires Humans 030212 general & internal medicine education Socioeconomic status media_common Demography education.field_of_study 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine Sterilization Reproductive Contraception Sterilization (medicine) Social Class Family planning National Survey of Family Growth Female Developed country |
| Zdroj: | Population studies. 70(1) |
| ISSN: | 1477-4747 |
| Popis: | This study investigates the association between sterilization and socioeconomic status in comparative context, using data from the 2006–10 National Survey of Family Growth and the 2004–10 Generations and Gender Surveys. We first confirm that longstanding patterns of association between socioeconomic status and sterilization persist in the contemporary United States. Specifically, female sterilization is associated with economic disadvantage whereas male sterilization is associated with economic advantage. We next show that female sterilization is similarly associated with disadvantage in most study countries, whereas a positive association between socioeconomic advantage and male sterilization is largely unique to the United States. However, while basic demographic background factors such as early childbearing and parity can explain the observed associations in most study countries, a strong gendered association between sterilization and socioeconomic status remains in the U.S. and Belgium even when adjusting for these factors. |
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