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- Bolivia has seen a decline in fertility rates, but as of 1998, 27.6% of married women had an unmet need for contraception, with a significant number wanting to limit or space their children.
- The article uses a multinomial hierarchical model to explore factors influencing this unmet contraceptive need, identifying key variables such as age, number of children, marriage length, region, and education.
- Despite analyzing various factors, there is still unexplained variation at the individual level, suggesting that more community-level research is needed to better understand these disparities.
Article Abstract
Bolivia, like most developing countries, has experienced a decline in fertility. However, in 1998, as many as 27.6% of all married women in Bolivia were classified as having an unmet need for contraception, of whom 20.6% needed to limit and 7% needed to space an additional child. The current article analyzes the unmet need for contraception in Bolivia. A multinomial hierarchical model was used to identify factors associated with the unmet need for contraception. Variables such as woman's age, number of living children, length of marriage, region, and schooling were strongly associated with unmet need for contraception. Despite the large number of variables in the model, a certain amount of unexplained variation at the individual level still remains, indicating the need to incorporate more detailed analysis at the community level.
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