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A BRISBANE FAMILY PLANNING SURVEY
Author(s) -
Job Eena M.,
Blunt Alan
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1972.tb47266.x
Subject(s) - family planning , birth control , control (management) , psychology , demography , medicine , family medicine , sociology , population , research methodology , computer science , artificial intelligence
In lower socio‐economic groups in Brisbane, there is a high level of approval of the principle of birth control, and knowledge of reliable methods of contraception is widespread. However, regular practice is the rule only for a minority, whose representatives are determined chiefly by higher educational standards, or membership of occupational status group 1 or 3. Religious affiliation is not a significant factor in practice or attitudes, but is related to knowledge and preferred method. Oral contraceptives are the best known and most preferred, but periodic continence is surprisingly popular.