Proximate determinants of fertility in Ethiopia: comparative analysis of the 2005 and 2011 DHS

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dc.contributor.authorLailulo, Yishak Abraham
dc.contributor.authorAppunni, Sathiya Susuman
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-15T13:36:34Z
dc.date.available2017-08-15T13:36:34Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractFertility is one of the elements in population dynamics that makes a significant contribution towards changing population size and structure over time. In Ethiopia, for the last 10 years the total fertility rate (TFR) has declined slightly from 5.5 to 4.8 children in 2011. But, the TFR in urban areas has increased from 2.4 to 2.6 per 1000 live births. The Bongaarts model was applied to estimate the indices of the four main proximate determinants of fertility. Bongaarts defines the TFR of a population as a function of the total fecundity rate (TF), index of marriage (Cm), index of contraception (Cc), index of postpartum infecundability (Ci), and index of abortion (Ca); this can be written as TFR = Cm × Cc × Ci × Ca × TF. In 2005, the index of married women in urban areas was lower than rural, but it was unfortunately the same in urban and rural areas in 2011. For the last decade, the index of postpartum infecundability had a great fertility reduction effect compared with the contraception index and marriage index in rural Ethiopia. The lower the four indices of proximate determinants, the more fertility will be reduced. As such, the Ethiopian government, international non-governmental organizations and policy-makers must pay attention to increase the prevalence of contraceptive use and educate society to fight against child marriage. Permanent contraceptive use, such as female sterilization, should be promoted; moreover, legal organizations and the community must work together to raise the legal age of marriage to 18 years.
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dc.identifier.citationLailulo, Y. A. & Susuman, A. S. (2017). Proximate determinants of fertility in Ethiopia: comparative analysis of the 2005 and 2011 DHS. Journal of Asian and African Studies, August 4 2017.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0021-9096
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3124
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909617722373
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909617722373
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectFertilityen_US
dc.subjectTotal fertility rateen_US
dc.subjectIndex of married womenen_US
dc.subjectAge at marriageen_US
dc.subjectCoale's fertility indicesen_US
dc.titleProximate determinants of fertility in Ethiopia: comparative analysis of the 2005 and 2011 DHSen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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