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Fertility and family planning in Papua New Guinea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

William K. A. Agyei
William K. A. Agyei
Affiliation:
Department of Macroenvironmental and Population Studies, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
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Summary

Data collected on fertility and family planning between November 1979 and March 1980 in eight provinces of Papua New Guinea (PNG) are presented in this report. Interviews with 2923 rural and 3360 urban male and female respondents found attitudes favouring large families. There was a relatively high level of contraceptive awareness, but the overall practice of modern contraception in both rural and urban areas is low. Despite the rural–urban differences in socioeconomic levels, awareness of family planning is only slightly higher among the urban respondents. The level of usage for the urban respondents is slightly higher than for the rural respondents.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , July 1984 , pp. 323 - 334
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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