Fraught with ambivalence: Reproductive intentions and contraceptive choices in a sub-saharan fertility transition

Population Research and Policy Review

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 617-645

  Agadjanian, Victor ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contraception; Fertility; Mozambique; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE USE; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; FAMILY PLANNING; PREGNANCY;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 32044450555     PISSN: 01675923     EISSN: 15737829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11113-005-5096-8     Document Type: Article

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