Microfinance participation and contraceptive decision-making: results from a national sample of women in Bangladesh

Type Journal Article - Public health
Title Microfinance participation and contraceptive decision-making: results from a national sample of women in Bangladesh
Author(s)
Volume 139
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2016
Page numbers 141-147
URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003335061630141X
Abstract
Objectives: Our objective was to assess whether microfinance participation affords greater
contraceptive decision-making power to women.
Study design: Population based secondary data analysis.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study using nationally representative data from the
Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2011 we conducted multinomial logistic
regression to estimate the odds of contraceptive decision-making by respondents and their
husbands based on microfinance participation. Microfinance participation was measured
as a dichotomous variable and contraceptive decision-making was conceptualized based
on who made decisions about contraceptive use: respondents only; their partners or
husbands only; or both.

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