This paper deals with identifying differentials influencing women's reproductive motivations in Pakistan. Different methods of analysis, qualitative as well as quantitative, haVebeen applied to explore the role of socio - economic, biological and demographic determinants of reproductive behaviour on different sets of data. The work consists of three models. Discriminant analysis was applied to identify the factors which differentiate 'users' of contraceptives from 'non - users', who 'want to cease production of more children' from those 'desiring more' after having completed their family and the women having 'Iow' fertility from those having 'not low'. The data analysis revealed that duration of marriage and interspousal discussion about family size are major forces in determining the family, size. It is suggested that family planning programme should give more weight to men to change their attitude about family size preferences than in the past. !
Naimatullah Hashmiand, Muhammad Iqbal Zafar. (1997) REPRODUCTIVE MOTIVAT'IONS AND FAMILY SIZE PREFERENCES AMONG PAKISTANI WOMEN : DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS, , Volume 34, Issue 1,2,3,4.
