Fertility change in Costa Rica 1960-84: analysis of retrospective lifetime reproductive histories
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1989-10Autor
Oberle, Mark W.
Rosero Bixby, Luis
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Lifetime reproductive histories of a 1984-85 nationally representative
sample of 870 women aged 25-59 years provided data to describe
the evolution of fertility, contraception, breast-feeding, and natural
fecundability in Costa Rica between 1960 and 1984. The contraceptive
prevalence rate increased from 23% in 1965 to 58% in 1975 and 66% in 1984.
Duration of breast-feeding was stable during the 1960s, decreased in the early
1970s, and increased after about 1976. Fecundability among women who did
not practise contraception was lower than expected and declined between
1960 and 1975, probably because of selection effects. Despite a high
consistency between estimations from the reproductive histories and other
sources of data, some suggestion of omissions of short periods of
contraceptive use in the distant past was detected. The survey may have
reduced recall errors by using a calendar that summarizes major life events
together. The analysis demonstrated the feasibility and usefulness of asking
for lifetime reproductive histories in fertility surveys in developing countries.
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10.1017/S0021932000018150
Artículo científico -- Universidad de Costa Rica. Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud, 1989