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Use of contraception among married women in New South Wales, Austrlia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Farhat Yusuf
Farhat Yusuf
Affiliation:
School of Economic and Financial Studies, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia
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Summary

This paper examines the current use of contraception among a sample of 6646 married women of reproductive age interviewed during 1972–73 in metropolitan and country areas of the state of New South Wales, Australia. The analysis shows that contraception is widely practised in all segments of the population, though to a lesser extent among the Catholic women and those born is southern Europe. In conjunction with now easily available induced abortion, this has resulted in a precipitous drop in the annual number of marital births.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1980 , pp. 41 - 49
Copyright
Copyright © 1980, Cambridge University Press

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