Education, fertility and contraception among Hindus and Roman Catholics in Goa
| Autor: | Rajiva Prasad, G. Rama Rao, T. K. Roy |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Contraceptive Prevalence Surveys media_common.quotation_subject Population India Fertility Humans Sociology Marriage education Socioeconomic status media_common education.field_of_study Catholicism Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Social Sciences Middle Aged Abstinence Religion Sexual abstinence Sterilization (medicine) Family planning Family Planning Services Educational Status Female Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Biosocial Science. 23:353-358 |
| ISSN: | 1469-7599 0021-9320 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0021932000019416 |
| Popis: | Differences in age at marriage, fertility and contraceptive use are related to religious background, individual educational level and community level education. In general, the effects of community education are weak compared to individual level of education, but differences exist between Hindus and Roman Catholics.Researchers used data from a fertility survey of married women aged 30-49 in 36 villages in Goa State in India to compare the variation in fertility, marriage patterns, and patterns of contraceptive use between Hindu and Roman Catholic women. The adjusted average number of children fell as the community level of education increased, but this effect was not significant. On the other hand, individual level of education did substantially influence fertility in a negative direction for both groups (p.01). Further, sterilization also had a significant negative effect on fertility (p.01). A significant relationship only existed between decreasing fertility and rising level of community education for Hindus with 6+ years of education (p.05). The mean age of marriage for Roman Catholics living in a well educated village and who had 1-5 years of schooling was 2.5 years higher than for women with the same education in a poorly educated village (p.05). It did not significantly affect Hindus, however. A greater proportion of Hindus (mean 53%) regardless of individual and community education used family planning than Roman Catholics (mean 31%). Most Hindus (40%) chose sterilization whereas most Roman Catholics (61%) chose temporary methods, particularly traditional methods. Among Hindus, only individual level of education substantially affected contraceptive use. For example a women with some education was 32% more likely to use family planning than 1 that had none. Neither individual or community level of education significantly influenced contraceptive use among Roman Catholics. Yet a Roman Catholic at any education level who lived in a better educated village was 83% more likely to be sterilized than a like educated woman in a poorly educated village. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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