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- Title
Adoption d'une culture contraceptive et maîtrise du projet familial. La contraception constitue-t-elle une Capabilité ?
- Authors
Sauvain-Dugerdil, Claudine; Douptcheva, Nedialka; Diawara, Sory Ibrahima
- Abstract
We examine family planning in terms of the adoption of a "contraceptive culture", as described by knowledge, practice and intentions, and its links with birth spacing. Analyses of DHS from Mali (2006) and Ghana (2008) confirm the persistence of a large gap between knowledge and practice - knowledge does not erase inequalities in practice - and the role of "conversion factors". In particular, the advantage of the residents of large cities disappears when controlling for personal characteristics. Gender differences are consistent, especially in Mali, with a higher dependency of women on their actual situation, while men's behaviour seems to rely more on their values. Last, contraceptive culture appears only weakly associated with birth spacing: more than adopting contraception, what counts are the characteristics of those women who adopt it. Contraception is not a Capability -a dimension of the freedom to plan the family - but one means among others for birth spacing.
- Publication
African Population Studies, 2014, Vol 28, Issue 2, p854
- ISSN
0850-5780
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.11564/28-2-600