Acknowledgment: The authors would like to thank the reviewers of this report, Mai Do and Yazoume ... more Acknowledgment: The authors would like to thank the reviewers of this report, Mai Do and Yazoume Ye, for their invaluable comments; Tom Pullum for methodological guidance; Paul Ametepi for expert advice on Service Provision Assessment (SPA) methodology; and Shireen Assaf for helpful discussion on analytical issues encountered.
This study takes a multilevel approach to identify determinants of women’s use of modern contrace... more This study takes a multilevel approach to identify determinants of women’s use of modern contraceptives in two diverse settings, Nepal and Rwanda. We explore the extent to which four spheres of communitylevel influence—socioeconomic development, women’s empowerment, fertility norms, and access to family planning information and services—shape women’s contraceptive use, after adjusting for women’s individual socio-demographic characteristics and for other contextual factors. Data for this study come primarily from the 2011 NDHS and the 2010 RDHS, and also draw from spatial data sources to measure community levels of socioeconomic development. The study focuses on rural women who do not wish to have a child within the next two years, a subset of women of particular interest to family planning policymakers. A sequence of random-effects logit regression models are run— separately for Rwanda and Nepal—to examine the variation in modern contraceptive use explained by each of the four sele...
Acknowledgment: The authors would like to thank the reviewers of this report, Mai Do and Yazoume ... more Acknowledgment: The authors would like to thank the reviewers of this report, Mai Do and Yazoume Ye, for their invaluable comments; Tom Pullum for methodological guidance; Paul Ametepi for expert advice on Service Provision Assessment (SPA) methodology; and Shireen Assaf for helpful discussion on analytical issues encountered.
This study takes a multilevel approach to identify determinants of women’s use of modern contrace... more This study takes a multilevel approach to identify determinants of women’s use of modern contraceptives in two diverse settings, Nepal and Rwanda. We explore the extent to which four spheres of communitylevel influence—socioeconomic development, women’s empowerment, fertility norms, and access to family planning information and services—shape women’s contraceptive use, after adjusting for women’s individual socio-demographic characteristics and for other contextual factors. Data for this study come primarily from the 2011 NDHS and the 2010 RDHS, and also draw from spatial data sources to measure community levels of socioeconomic development. The study focuses on rural women who do not wish to have a child within the next two years, a subset of women of particular interest to family planning policymakers. A sequence of random-effects logit regression models are run— separately for Rwanda and Nepal—to examine the variation in modern contraceptive use explained by each of the four sele...
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