Assessment of the fertility impact of family planning programmes in Egypt

ABSTRACT

The present study demonstrated the role of the Egyptian FPP during the period 1980 - 1988 in knowledge of FP, contraceptive use, attitude toward FP, availability, accessibility and satisfaction with methods. Four different evaluation methods have been employed for measuring the impact of FPP on fertility in Egypt The st and ardization approach, the prevalence method, the multivariate areal analysis, and the log linear model. The st and ardization method should be applied primarily. Its effectiveness lies primarily in the capability of determining whether fertility, as measured by the CBR [or the GFR], has changed at all in the area and during the period under study, by decomposing the change in the GBR of its demographic component parts Proportion of women of reproductive ages, age structure of women of reproductive ages, proportion of married women, and martial age specific fertility rates. The prevalence method provides direct impact measures of contraception either from program or/ and non-program use on fertility. It produces the number of births averted as well as the reduction in the natural CBR that results from the use of contraception. The multivariate areal analysis method is congruent in many ways with the problem of measuring the effect of the FPP on fertility, especially those countries which are characterized by a considerable variability within its geographical areas, such as Egypt. The last method applied is the log linear analysis. This method provides a systematic approach of analysis for discovering the kind of the relationships that may be found in contingency table