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The role of male partners in modern contraceptive use by women in South Africa: Does space also matter?
Authors: Kabeya Clement Mulamba
Source: Journal of Population Research, 40
Topic(s): Contraception
Gender
Spatial analysis
Country: Africa
  South Africa
Published: MAR 2023
Abstract: This paper examined the role of male partners in modern contraceptive use by women across clusters in South Africa. Its main objective was threefold. First, the present paper sought to test whether South African married women’s modern contraceptive use is related to the influence of their husbands or male partners. Second, it examined whether modern contraceptive use is similar within clusters. Third, it tested whether group effects are spatially dependent among neighbouring clusters. It used the recent Demographic and Health Survey for South Africa as the data source to carry out the empirical analysis. On the one hand, the results confirm a positive and significant relationship between South African married women’s modern contraceptive use with their partners’ secondary education level, irrespective of the cluster in which they reside. On the other hand, the hypothesis that spatial dependence of random effects is not confirmed, leading to the conclusion that space only matters when it comes to spatial heterogeneity or group effects.
Web: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12546-023-09297-9