Relates between education level and fertility behaviors of women in the reproductive age group

Abstract

The study aimed to find the relationship between wealth index and fertility behavior of women in Uganda. The researcher used secondary data and this data was entered in statistical analysis (STATA) where different tables were generated and analysed. Three specific objectives were measured and the data analysis was done at three levels that is; univariate, bivariate and multivariate analysis. The findings showed that the prevalence for desire of more children as a measure for fertility behaviors was 33.95. The factors associated with this prevalence was examined. The findings showed that some of the p-values for variables under study were less than 0.05, the significant level such as contraception, region, marital status, age etc. Therefore, the researcher concluded that the above-mentioned variables had an impact on fertility behavior of women within Uganda,. However, the risk determinants for fertility behaviors were age, marital status and the region.

The researcher recommends that the government should enforce affirmative action’s such as the 1.5 points for girls that join university or other tertiary institutions and prohibiting harmful social and cultural practices like early marriages which later shift the rate of early pregnancies, government to be supportive in making the modern contraception accessible, affordable and available to women in child-bearing years and there is a need to increase the years of schooling among the girl child, this shifts the age at first marriage reducing early sexual debut thus no teenage pregnancies