Spousal communication, contraceptive use and fertility behaviour among couples in Northern Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorOgwuche, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-06T08:49:06Z
dc.date.available2020-02-06T08:49:06Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.descriptionxii,119pen_US
dc.description.abstractThe study examined spousal communication, contraceptive use and fertility behaviour among couples in Northern Nigeria. Attempt was also made to understand factors associated with spousal communication using the following specific objectives. The study assessed the influence of spousal communication on contraceptive use; examined the relationship between spousal communication and fertility desire; investigated the effect of socio-economic factors on spousal communication and contraceptive use in northern Nigeria; and examined the interaction effects of spousal communication, contraceptive use and fertility behaviour in Northern Nigeria. The study adopted both primary and secondary data sources in its methodology. Using 2008 Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) as a source of reliable secondary demographic data, 3200 couples’ data from Northern Nigeria was extracted from 33,385 women of reproductive age 15-49 and 15,486 men of ages 15-59. Eighteen In-depth Interviews (IDIs) were conducted in three purposively selected states namely Bauchi, Kano and Niger because they are some of the states with high CEB (children ever born). Each of the three states represents each of the three northern geopolitical zones where couples that are currently staying together were interviewed separately. Six IDIs were carried out in each of these states; three IDIs were conducted with randomly selected respondents in rural and urban areas of each of these three states respectively. An interview guide was developed to elicit information from women of reproductive age 15-49 that have at least a child in the past five years on the following variables: socio-demographic characteristics of couples, contraceptive use and fertility behaviour. Content analysis was employed to analyze responses from IDIs. The secondary data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings from the study showed that husbands are older than their wives; more than half of the couples are working while the proportion of husbands’ working is more than that of the wives. More than half of the couples (60%) have same education, whereas husbands tend to have more education than their wives. With regards to religion, almost all the couples (94%) share same religion. Spousal communication among couples with a joint decision is high at 62%, despite this, contraceptive prevalence rate is very low as 77 percent of couples have never used contraceptives while only 14 percent have ever used. Also, 90 percent of the couples are not presently using contraceptives when compared to the 5% that uses. The result of the multivariate analysis shows no variation between spousal communication and children ever born and a significant relationship between ever use of contraception with children ever born. Meanwhile there is no significant relationship between current use of contraception and children ever born.en_US
dc.identifier.citationOgwuche, M. (2014). Spousal communication, contraceptive use and fertility behaviour among couples in Northern Nigeria. Obafemi Awolowo Universityen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.oauife.edu.ng/handle/123456789/5140
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDemographic and Social Statistics, Obafemi Awolowo Universityen_US
dc.subjectContraceptionen_US
dc.subjectCommunicationen_US
dc.subjectSpousal communicationen_US
dc.subjectFertilityen_US
dc.subjectCouplesen_US
dc.subjectContraceptive useen_US
dc.subjectFertility desireen_US
dc.titleSpousal communication, contraceptive use and fertility behaviour among couples in Northern Nigeriaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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