Attitudes of women and men towards contraception in Bobo-Dioulasso

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PSC African Demography Working Paper Series
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Africa
fertility
contraception
breastfeeding
abstinence
birth spacing
World Fertility Survey
surveys
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Yoruba
tradition
ethnic differences
premarital sex
lactation
pregnancy
contraceptive methods
Senegal
Ivory Coast
East Africa
Bobo-Dioulasso
Burkina Faso
Upper Volta
Ouagadougou
Abidjan
interviews
ethnographic methods
fieldwork
ethnic groups
contraceptive knowledge
women
men
husbands
fathers
wives
mothers
religion
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van de Walle, Francine
Traore, Baba
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The extent of knowledge and practice of contraception in African populations remains hard to evaluate and despite the great influx of data from the World Fertility Surveys, the impact of contraception on fertility levels is difficult to measure. The practice of abstinence for the purpose of spacing births is widespread in Africa. It was discussed in demographic terms already by Lorimer in 1954. More recently the Caldwells (1977, 1981), by carefully investigating the phenomenon among the Yoruba, contributed greatly to establish the place of sexual abstinence in the study of the determinants of African fertility. Lately, data from the World Fertility Survey have shown large variations in the length of post-partum abstinence between countries and among different ethnic groups. Anthropological research has thrown some light on the different functions attributed to post-partum sexual abstinence, and the different reasons for practicing it.

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1986-06-01
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African Demography Working Papers Working Paper No.13 June 1986
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