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Household Wealth, Decision-Making, and High-Parity Pregnancies in Nigeria
Authors: Bola Lukman Solanke
Source: Women's Reproductive Health, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23293691.2020.1861411
Topic(s): Family planning
Fertility
Household decision-making
Multiple birth
Wealth Index
Country: Africa
  Nigeria
Published: DEC 2020
Abstract: Existing studies have associated a number of issues with high-parity pregnancies. However, the extent to which household wealth and decision-making are associated with high-parity pregnancies has not been explored, hence this study. I analyzed data from a weighted sample of 11,889 women extracted from the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). A mixed-effects logistic regression was applied. Across the fitted models, the odds of high-parity pregnancies reduced consistently as household wealth improved, and women who do not participate in household decision-making consistently had greater odds of high-parity pregnancies.
Web: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23293691.2020.1861411