Spatial variation in contraceptive use in Bangladesh: Looking Beyond the borders | Zendy

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Spatial variation in contraceptive use in Bangladesh: Looking Beyond the borders

Author(s) -

Sajeda Amin,

Alaka Malwade Basu,

Rob Stephenson

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.1353/dem.2002.0014

Subject(s) - outlier , west bengal , geography , variation (astronomy) , socioeconomics , demographic economics , demography , development economics , sociology , economics , statistics , physics , mathematics , astrophysics

This article promotes a more complete understanding of social change by analyzing spatial patterns of contraceptive use in Bangladesh and the contiguous state of West Bengal in India. Multilevel analyses that control for variations in individual- and household-level correlates show an important role for cross-border influences only in those districts that share a common language across the border. The districts that are positive outliers in contraception hug the Bangladesh-West Bengal border. A map of outliers shows that the positive outliers form a contiguous band in a manner suggestive of a role for contagion.

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