The Caribbean fertility studies / Human fertility in Latin America: sociological perspective
Ithaca; Cornell University; 1968.
Monography
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ABSTRACT
Two major investigations concerning fertility control among lower income classes have been conducted in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and in Jamaica during the past 10 years. In Puerto Rico 72 rural and urban couples, and in Jamaica 99 rural and urban wives and a subsample of 53 husbands were given unstructured interviews. Based on results from the pilot investigations, larger-scale sample surveys were conducted, using shorter interviews with questions more amendable to statistical analysis. In Jamaica area probability sample of 1400 currently mated urban and rural women was employed. In Puerto Rico a similar representative sample of the island's household heads was employed for questions on knowledge and use of birth control; the interview proper was adminstered to 888 wives and 322 husbands, drawn from the outpatient case loads of health centers and prematernal clinics. In order to determine whether educational methods can affect knowledge, attitudes, and behavior in the area of family planning, experimental designs were set up. Finally, the island of Haiti was selected for pilot investigation in order to establish a kind of baseline. On the basis of the various studies, 3 necessary and 3 facilitating conditions for effective fertility control can be drawn up. The necessary conditions are 1) ends or values which explicitly favor a family size less than is normally achieved without control, 2) awareness of the means of achieving family limitation, and 3) acceptability of the known means. The 3 facilitating conditions are distribution of means, social organization, and salience. In Jamaica, in the light of the inadequacy of knowledge, poor family organization, and low salience of family limitation, it is no surprise that only 7 percent of the rural and 17 percent of the urban women have ever tried a birth control method. In Puerto Rico despite a desire for small families, relatively good knowledge of methods, variable attitudes, and an excellent public system of clinics, family limitations has not become popular in the same sense as in modern industrial societies. (AU)
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Base de dados:
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Assunto principal:
Região do Caribe
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Taxa de Fecundidade
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
Aspecto:
Equity_inequality
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Caribe
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Caribe ingles
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Jamaica
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Puerto rico
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
1968
Tipo de documento:
Monography
País de publicação:
Estados Unidos