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- Title
The impact of the family planning supply environment on contraceptive intentions and use in Morocco.
- Authors
Magnani, Robert J.; Hotchkiss, David R.; Magnani, R J; Hotchkiss, D R; Florence, C S; Shafer, L A
- Abstract
Although the extent to which organized family planning programs influence reproductive preferences remains a subject of debate, most observers would grant that such programs play a key role in helping individuals to realize their contraceptive and reproductive intentions. However, few prior studies have quantified the magnitude of this facilitating or enabling effect of family planning services, given existing demand for contraception. This study takes advantage of panel survey data and linked information on the supply environment for family planning services in Morocco in order to bridge this research gap. In the analysis, contraceptive use during the 1992-95 period is related to contraceptive intentions in 1992; individual-, household-, and community-level determinants of contraceptive behavior; and family planning supply factors. Estimation procedures are used that control for unobserved joint determinants of contraceptive intentions and use. Evidence of a significant enabling or facilitating role of family planning services is found, and the results also suggest that family planning program factors influence contraceptive intentions in important ways.
- Subjects
MOROCCO; BIRTH control; BIRTH control clinics; CONTRACEPTIVES
- Publication
Studies in Family Planning, 1999, Vol 30, Issue 2, p120
- ISSN
0039-3665
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1728-4465.1999.00120.x