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Document Type
Further Analysis
Publication Topic(s)
Family Planning, Fertility and Fertility Preferences
Country(s)
Philippines
Survey
Philippines DHS, 1998
Language
English
Author(s)
Maria Paz N. Marques and Charles F. Westoff and Population Institute University of the Phillipines, Manila, Phillipines and Macro International Inc. Calverton, Maryland, USA
Publication Date
December 1999
Publication ID
FA29

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Abstract:

Preference for fewer children provides the motivation to practice contraception and is the key factor in the decline of fertility in the Philippines. This further analysis report seeks to describe the characteristics of women who want no more than two children and to develop a profile of women at the leading edge of the fertility transition in the Philippines.

 


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