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100			_aOrbeta, Aniceto C., Jr.
245			_aPoverty, fertility preferences, and family planning practices in the Philippines/
300			_app.129-160
490			_aVol. 33 No. 1&2 2006
500			_aSpecial Volume in Honor of Alejandro N. Herrin
520			_aThis paper looks at the interaction of poverty, fertility preferences, and family planning practices in the Philippines using the series of nationally representative family planning surveys conducted annually since 1999 augmented by census and other survey data. Its contribution lies in providing recent and nationally representative empirical evidence on the long-running but largely unresolved debate in the country on the relationship between fertility preferences and family planning and socioeconomic status. The paper shows that while the number of children ever born is indeed larger among poorer households, their demand for additional children is actually lower and their contraceptive practice is also poorer. This result indicates that, in the case of the Philippines, the larger number of children among the poor is more the result of poorer contraceptive practice than the higher demand for additional children.
650			_aPoverty
650			_aFamily planning
650			_aFertility preferences
650			_aPhilippines
650			_aSocioeconomic status
773			_w0115-9143 _tPhilippine Journal of Development
856			_uhttp://dirp3.pids.gov.ph/ris/pjd/pidspjd06-poverty.pdf
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