Author : Nour Chida
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (894 download)
Book Synopsis Association Between Fertility Rates and Socioeconomic Status in Tunisia by : Nour Chida
Download or read book Association Between Fertility Rates and Socioeconomic Status in Tunisia written by Nour Chida and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the launching of a family planning program in Tunisia in 1964, the fertility rate dropped from 7.2 births per women to 2.02 births per women in 2004. Tunisia has also experienced a significant improvement of its economy and its social indicators. However, marked disparities still persist between the industrialized coast and the disadvantaged western inland. To examine the association between 12 socioeconomic status (SES) indicators and the fertility rates of Tunisian women in each of the 24 governorates. This descriptive, cross-sectional study used data collected and published by the Tunisian National Statistics Institute. Association between SES indicators and fertility rates variables were determined by the Pearson correlation coefficient and linear regression. Bivariate results show two indicators of high SES, percentage of women with higher education (slope = -.191) and percentage of villa type housing (slope = -.185), were negatively associated with fertility rates (p