Rural women attitude toward family planning a field study in two Egyptian villages
Abstract: This study aims to identity rural woolen attitude toward family planning, determine the relationship between rural women attitude toward family planning gild some social and economic variables (i.e., wife mid husband age, their educational status, their work, the family economic standard, landholding, and social participation), identify the reasons behind some respondents unwillingness to use family planning means, and defining the difference between respondents' attitude toward f planning in the two studied villages.
The study was conducted on a sample of 200 rural women in Bakhaty village, Shebeen El-Kokum district, Monofia governorate and Musha village, Assuit district, Assuit governorate (100 respondents each). Respondents were selected randomly from the married women over 19 fears of age. Data were collected by interviewing respondents using a questionnaire, through the Organization of Reconstruction and Development of Egyptian Village (ORUEV). The questionnaire composed of 2 parts, the first part was concerned with independent variables, while the second included the indicator of' measuring rural women attitudes toward family planning.
The main results of the study revealed that 50% of respondents had positive attitudes toward family planning, while I2.5% of them had negative attitudes. Results revealed also that there was significant difference at 0.01 level between respondents attitude toward Family planning and each of: the wife educational status, and family size. The same relationship was detected at 0.05 level concerning the husband's educational status.
Publication year 1999
Pages 18
Availability location Agricultural Extension And Rural Development Research Institute Library Agricultural Research Center – 8, Cairo University St., - Egypt
Availability number 272
Organization Name
Country Egypt
City Giza
Publisher Name: Agricultural Research Centre – Egypt
serial title Bulletin of Agricultural Extension and Rural development Research Institute
Department Rural Sociology Research Department
Author(s) from ARC
Agris Categories Extension
AGROVOC
TERMS		 Family planning.
Publication Type Journal
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