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Dynamics of poverty-related dissimilarities in fertility in Nigeria: 2003-2018
(Elsevier B.V, 2020) Adebowale, A. S.; Fagbamigbe, A. F.; Akinyemi, J. O.; Olowolafe, T.; Onwusaka, O.; Adewole, D.; Sadikue, S.; Palamuleni, M.
Nigeria is one of the high fertility countries worldwide. Little is known about the differences in fertility experience of women in poor and rich households in Nigeria. We ex amined the relationship between household wealth and fertility in Nigeria with focus on women from poor and rich households.This national representative and cross-sectional design study involved analysis of fourrounds (2003, 2008, 2013, 2018) of Nigeria Demographic Health and Survey data . Theoutcome variable was fertility measured from the full birth history information reported by women of reproductive age. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, direct and Gompertz-relational demographic methods, logistic regression and negative binomial re gression models (α=0.05). Across the survey years, the mean number of children ever born (CEB), the total fer tility rate and the percentage of women who had high fertility were consistently higher among the women from poor households than those from the rich households. From 2003 to 2018, declining pattern (slope = -0.87) in percentage of high fertility women was observed among rich unlike the poor women (slope = +0.31) where a slight increase was observed. In 2018 as for other survey rounds, about 18.7% and 38.4% of rich and poor women had high fertility (CEB≥5) respectively. The likelihood of high fertility (CEB≥5) was 2.74 (C.I=2.60-2.89, p<0.001) times higher among poor women than the rich women. In 2018,the fertility incidence risk ratio was about 8.0% higher among the women from the poo rhouseholds than their counterparts from the rich households and this pattern was observed when some other factors were included in the regression model across the survey years (2003-2018).
Survival analysis and prognostic factors associated with the timing of first forced sexual act among women in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Cote d‘Ivoire
(Elsevier B.V, 2019) Fagbamigbe, A. F.; Abi, R.; Akinwumi, T.; Ogunsuji, O.; Odigwe, A.; Olowolafe, T.
The paucity of information on the age at which Forced Sexual Act (FSA) among women occur and the factors affecting the timings in Africa necessitated this study. We assessed the timing of first FSA and its prognostic factors among women in three African countries. We used sexual violence data of 18,528 women aged 15–49 years who participated in Zimbabwe (2011), Kenya (2014), and Cote d’Ivoire (2014) demographic and health surveys. The time of first FSA was censored as the current age of women who had not experienced FSA. Kaplan-Meier methods and Cox proportional hazard model were used at p = 0.05. The proportion who had ever experienced FSA was 13.9%, 21.7% & 27.2% while median time to FSA was 17, 20 & 18 years in Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Cote d’Ivoire respectively. The highest (41.8%) lifetime prevalence of forced sexual act was among divorced/separated women in Cote D’Ivoire. Women aged 15–19 years had earlier risk of FSA: Kenya (aHR = 3.60 (95% CI:2.43–5.34)), Zimbabwe (aHR = 2.91 (95% CI:2.32–3.65)), and Cote d’Ivoire (aHR = 2.72 (95% CI:2.22–3.33)) than women aged 40–49 years. Other significant prognostic factors of time of FSA are marital status, place of residence, employment status, religion, wealth index, and education. There are generational shifts in timing of first forced sexual act among women with girls born in the 1990s becoming victims at earlier ages than those born in the 1960s and 1970s. There is a need for a multi-sectoral approach to reduce the prevalence and halt the negative trend in forced sexual act in Africa.