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100			_aFotso, Jean Christophe _9122597
245		0	_aCameroon's slow fertility transition: A gender perspective
260			_bPopulation Studies
260			_c2024
300			_a79-91
520			_aWe interrogate the proposition that men's attitudes have constrained the fertility transition in Cameroon, where fertility remains high and contraceptive use low despite much socio-economic progress. We use five Demographic and Health Surveys to compare trends in desired family size among young women and men and analyse matched monogamous couple data from the two most recent surveys to examine wives' and husbands' desires to stop childbearing and their relative influence on current contraceptive use. In 2018, average desired family size was 5.6 and 5.1, for young men and women respectively, and this difference (half a child) has not changed since 1998. Among matched couples, the proportions wanting to stop childbearing were similar in wives and their husbands, but wives perceived husbands to be much more pronatalist than themselves. Surprisingly, men's own reported preferences were more closely associated with contraceptive use than wives' perceptions of husbands' preferences. We discerned little evidence that men's attitudes have impeded reproductive change.
650			_a Contraception _99282
650			_a Fertility Preferences _9122598
650			_a Matched Couples _9122599
650			_a Men _97832
650			_aYouth _9170
700			_a Adje, Elihou O. _9122600
700			_a Cleland, John G. _9122601
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2023.2297687
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