Abstract
Fertility desires has considerableimpacton a couple’s actual demand of children. High
reproductive goals of Pakistani women particularly due to son preference hinder fertility
control.It is therefore required to investigate the attitudinal determinants of son preference in
Pakistan. Poisson regression model was used to fit a model for attitudinal determinants of desired
number of sons in a family on the basis of the latest Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey
(2012-13).Region, work status of women, age of women, education of women, wealth index and
cousin marriage are found to be the significant factors affecting the ideal number of sons.Finally,
it can be concluded that intention for a higher number of sons is strong among older, poorer,
illiterate, working women and women who were married to cousins.
Asifa Kamal, Fatima Waqar, Amina Muazzam . (2018) Attitudinal Determinants of Son Preference for Pakistani Women: Poisson Regression Model Approach, Journal of Arts and Social sciences, Volume 5, Issue 2.
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