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Determinants of Fertility Intentions in Pakistan

Abstract

In 1951 Pakistan ranked at 14th position in the world’s populous countries but with 2.1 percent growth rate it has now become the 5th most high populated country in the world. The rise in growth rate of population of Pakistan is due to two factors which are slow fall of crude birth rate which was 45 per thousand in 1960 to only 28.2 per thousand in 2018 and second factor is low mortality rate. Logistic regression was used to find out determinants of fertility intentions of ever married women at national and regional level where dependent variable was a dummy (would you like to give birth to another child or not) while lot of socio- economic variables like place of residence, education, employment status & age at marriage were dependent variables. Result indicated that number of surviving children, age at marriage, contraceptive use of women were found to be major factors limiting fertility intentions (i-e) desire to have more children in Pakistan so increasing age at marriage, providing more health and contraception facilities can reduce fertility levels in Pakistan.

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