Educational Outcomes In Health And Fertility
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Educational outcomes in health and fertility
Research Objectives
• The relationship between women’s schooling and her decision making power
• Whether schooling works through community or individual influences
• Whether the thresholds of effects schooling are stable or changing
objectives
• Whether the relationship between education and health/fertility are changing
• Whether the outcomes of schooling for the poor are different from the less poor
Research focus
• Health and fertility behaviour
• Women's agency and empowerment in relation to:
• Confidence
• Decision making
• Domestic violence
Research design
• Sample selection- Young men and women between the ages of 25-34
• methods
Semi-structured interviews with spouses, husband’s parents
Focused group discussions- other members of the household, target age group
Data analysis
• Use of Atlas-TI to index and sort the material generated