Addai I
Department of Social Sciences, Lansing Community College, Michigan, USA.
J Biosoc Sci. 1999 Jan;31(1):105-20. doi: 10.1017/s0021932099001054.
Using a sub-sample of ever-married women from the 1993 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS), this study examines differentials in contraceptive use in six cultural groups: Ga-Adangbe, Twi, Fante/other Akans, Ewe, Guan/others and Mole-Dagbani. Multivariate analysis is used to explore whether reported ethnic differentials in contraceptive use can be attributed to ethnicity or to other characteristics that distinguish the ethnic groups. Overall, the findings are generally more consistent with the 'characteristics' hypothesis, because contraceptive use differentials by ethnic group is accounted for by differences in socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of these women. However, for the Fante/other Akans, even after the necessary controls, ethnicity continued to emerge as a significant determinant of contraceptive use. Programmatic implications of these results are discussed.
本研究使用了1993年加纳人口与健康调查（GDHS）中曾婚女性的子样本，考察了六个文化群体（加-阿丹贝族、特维族、芳蒂/其他阿坎族、埃维族、关族/其他族以及莫莱-达格巴尼族）在避孕措施使用方面的差异。采用多变量分析来探究所报告的避孕措施使用方面的种族差异是可归因于种族本身，还是可归因于区分这些种族群体的其他特征。总体而言，研究结果通常更符合“特征”假说，因为不同种族群体在避孕措施使用上的差异是由这些女性的社会经济和人口特征差异所导致的。然而，对于芳蒂/其他阿坎族而言，即便进行了必要的控制，种族因素依然是避孕措施使用的一个重要决定因素。文中还讨论了这些结果在规划方面的影响。
