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A comparative analysis of contraceptive use in Africa: evidence from DHS
The aim of this article is to show a comparative analysis of contraceptive use in areas of traditionally high
fertility that have gone through profound changes. Data have been taken from the latest Demographic and
Health Surveys (DHS). Logistic regression models were adopted for four selected representative countries,
namely Egypt, Mali, Namibia and Niger. There were two selection criteria: data should be recent, and selected
countries should have high (Egypt 57.4%; Namibia 46.4%) or low (Mali 7.5%; Niger 10.0%) contraceptive use.
The probability of using contraception when a woman has had one to four children is 2.4 times higher than
when they have had no children. Contraception data are always gathered at a point of time, but crosssectional
data are not sufficient to understand all the mechanisms hidden behind contraceptive use. Different
contraceptive behaviours need good estimation tools to develop specific family planning programmes.Web of Scienc
Coital Experience Among Adolescents in Three Social-Educational Groups in Urban Chiang Mai, Thailand
This article compares coital experience of Chiang Mai 17â20-year-olds who were: (1) out-of-school; (2) studying at vocational schools; and (3) studying at general schools or university. Four-fifths, two-thirds and one-third, respectively, of males in these groups had had intercourse, compared to 53, 62 and 15 per cent of females. The gender difference for general school/university students, but not vocational school students, probably reflects HIV/AIDS refocusing male sexual initiation away from commercial sex workers. Vocational school females may have been disproportionately affected. Loss of virginity was associated, for both sexes, with social-educational background and lifestyle, and was less likely in certain minority ethnic groups. Among males, it was also associated with age and parental marital dissolution, and among females, with independent living and parental disharmony. Within social-educational groups, lifestyle variables dominated, but among general school/university students, parental marital dissolution (for males) and disharmony (for females) were also important, and Chinese ethnicity deterred male sexual experimentation