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Fertility differentials in Bangladesh and Pakistan: Evidence from demographic and health surveys

Following the launch of family planning programs in the 1960s and 1970s, there has been a divergence in fertility transition across Muslim countries. Bangladesh and Pakistan provide an interesting contrast in the pace of fertility transition. Typical of the Muslim world, both countries had a high fe...

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Main Author: Lai, SL
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Published: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd 2022
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spelling my.um.eprints.406912023-10-23T08:21:03Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/40691/ Fertility differentials in Bangladesh and Pakistan: Evidence from demographic and health surveys Lai, SL HQ The family. Marriage. Woman QP Physiology Following the launch of family planning programs in the 1960s and 1970s, there has been a divergence in fertility transition across Muslim countries. Bangladesh and Pakistan provide an interesting contrast in the pace of fertility transition. Typical of the Muslim world, both countries had a high fertility level of around 6.6 children per woman in the middle of the twentieth century. While the fertility level in Bangladesh had declined to replacement level by 2016, Pakistan's fertility rate remained well above that level, at 3.5 children per woman. Drawing on data from multiple waves of the Demographic and Health Surveys to run bivariate analyses and negative binomial regression, the paper examines the determinants of fertility differentials within and across the two countries. Pakistani women had more children than Bangladeshi women across all socio-economic variables. Differences in socio-economic conditions, cultural practices such as childbearing norms, and access to family planning between the two countries are plausible reasons for the fertility variations. The paper concludes with implications of fertility differentials in developing countries, and some recommendations on strategies to enhance planned parenthood in high fertility countries. Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd 2022-09 Article PeerReviewed Lai, SL (2022) Fertility differentials in Bangladesh and Pakistan: Evidence from demographic and health surveys. Asian Population Studies, 18 (3). pp. 275-293. ISSN 1744-1730, DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2021.1986254 <https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2021.1986254>. 10.1080/17441730.2021.1986254
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Fertility differentials in Bangladesh and Pakistan: Evidence from demographic and health surveys
description Following the launch of family planning programs in the 1960s and 1970s, there has been a divergence in fertility transition across Muslim countries. Bangladesh and Pakistan provide an interesting contrast in the pace of fertility transition. Typical of the Muslim world, both countries had a high fertility level of around 6.6 children per woman in the middle of the twentieth century. While the fertility level in Bangladesh had declined to replacement level by 2016, Pakistan's fertility rate remained well above that level, at 3.5 children per woman. Drawing on data from multiple waves of the Demographic and Health Surveys to run bivariate analyses and negative binomial regression, the paper examines the determinants of fertility differentials within and across the two countries. Pakistani women had more children than Bangladeshi women across all socio-economic variables. Differences in socio-economic conditions, cultural practices such as childbearing norms, and access to family planning between the two countries are plausible reasons for the fertility variations. The paper concludes with implications of fertility differentials in developing countries, and some recommendations on strategies to enhance planned parenthood in high fertility countries.
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title Fertility differentials in Bangladesh and Pakistan: Evidence from demographic and health surveys
title_short Fertility differentials in Bangladesh and Pakistan: Evidence from demographic and health surveys
title_full Fertility differentials in Bangladesh and Pakistan: Evidence from demographic and health surveys
title_fullStr Fertility differentials in Bangladesh and Pakistan: Evidence from demographic and health surveys
title_full_unstemmed Fertility differentials in Bangladesh and Pakistan: Evidence from demographic and health surveys
title_sort fertility differentials in bangladesh and pakistan: evidence from demographic and health surveys
publisher Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
publishDate 2022
url http://eprints.um.edu.my/40691/
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