Efectos de la educación sobre la paridez / Effects of the education on the parturition

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Keywords Education, parity or number of children, contraceptive methods and ideal number of children A higher degree of education in women diminishes the number of children. Aim:To analyse the ways formal educationinfluences parity on fertile women. Descriptive and transversed design total universe fertile women of eighth region of Chile the Biobío Region. The sample was taken from 509 fertile age women living in urban and rural areas of this region. Aleatory and hierarchical selection of areas then it was determined an individual sample, gathering of information January 2001 according toDemographic and Health Survey Program Conceptual strategy based on Bongaarts model, including demographic socioeconomics and the access predictors together with fertility determinants. Dependant variable of the studywas parity or the total number of children per women Once data base was created on statistical univarying, bivarying and multivarying analysis was done with statistical analysis system (SAS) to know the effects of the variables on dependant. Results: The average scholarity and number of children were 10 and 1.8 respectively. When ordering hierarchically blocks of predictors variables with dependant variable. The best model on child bearing determinant includes education,age, marital status, number of children before using as contraceptive method, use of a modern contraceptive method and ideal number of children. Conclusion: The final model able to explain the percentage of variation is the one that included age and marital status and close determinants, number of children before the method, use ofmodern contraceptive method and ideal number of children. Education is an exogenous variable determining fertility of women.