Household Poverty and Non-Intention to Uptake Modern Contraception among Women in Union in Burundi: Invalidity of the Theory of Intergenerational Flows of Wealth in Contemporary Africa

Jean François Sindayihebura, Université Du Burundi
Didier Nganawara, Institut de formation et de Recherche Démographiques
René Manirakiza, Université du Burundi

Expecting an increase in the use of modern contraception to reduce fertility from 5.5 to 3 children per woman and reduce population growth from 2.4% to 2% per year, Burundi has seen the level of intention to use it fall from 66% to 53% among women in union between 2010 and 2016-2017. The aim of this research is to test whether household poverty explains this lack of contraceptive use intention on the part of women whose couples are hoping to have a large number of offspring. Using multilevel logistic regression, the analysis of the EDSB II and III data shows that the wealth level is not significantly associated with this phenomenon. According to these results, intergenerational flows of wealth do not explain contraceptive non-intention. On the other hand, we must look at the socio-cultural background, whose characteristics are the most influential. Keywords: Burundi; contraceptive non-intention; household poverty; intergenerational wealth flows; multilevel analysis

Keywords: Fertility, Family Planning and Contraception, Families, Unions and Households, Multi-level modeling

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