ArticleStudies in family planning2016
Capturing Complexities of Relationship-Level Family Planning Trajectories in Malawi.
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- The power of women's and men's Social Networks to catalyse normative and behavioural change: evaluation of an intervention addressing Unmet need for Family Planning in Benin.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Contraceptive method use trajectories among young women in Kenya: A qualitative study.Frontiers in global women's health · 2022Article
- Demographic and Fertility Characteristics of Contraceptive Clusters in Burundi.Studies in family planning · 2021Article
- A Sequence-Analysis Approach to the Study of the Transition to Adulthood in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Population and development review · 2021Article
- "When you least expect, this happens, it's already growing": Problematizing the definition of unmet need for family planning.Open access journal of contraception · 2019Article
- Correlates of Contraceptive Use and Health Facility Choice among Young Women in Malawi.The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 2017Article
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Abstract
In a transitioning fertility climate, preferences and decisions surrounding family planning are constantly in flux. Malawi provides an ideal case study of family planning complexities as fertility preferences are flexible, the relationship context is unstable, and childbearing begins early. I use intensive longitudinal data from Tsogolo la Thanzi-a research project in Malawi that follows young adults in romantic partnerships through the course of their relationship. I examine two questions: (1) What are the typical patterns of family planning as young adults transition through a relationship? (2) How are family planning trajectories related to individual and relationship-level characteristics? I use sequence analysis to order family planning across time and to contextualize it within each relationship. I generate and cluster the family planning trajectories and find six distinct groups of young adults who engage in family planning in similar ways. I find that family planning is complex, dynamic, and unique to each relationship. I argue that (a) family planning research should use the relationship as the unit of analysis and (b) family planning behaviors and preferences should be sequenced over time for a better understanding of key concepts, such as unmet need.
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