Relationship between Household Income and Fertility in Addis Ababa: The Case of Addis Ketema Sub city Wereda 4 And 10
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2021-09
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Addis Ababa University
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Existing evidences show an inverse relationship between income and fertility among countries, and across households. Although the inverse association is observed quite often, there are conditions under which fertility and income are correlated positively. Many studies find lower fertility among those who earn high income. Nonetheless, it is sometimes argued that early on in the development process, a positive relationship between income and fertility could exist. Most of the studies that document a positive relationship are subsumed in agrarian economies, and often income is peroxide by farm size. This paper explored the relationship between household income and fertility, in cross sectional manner using primary data in Wereda 4 and 10 located in Addis Ketema Sub-City of the City Government of Addis Ababa. The study used Poisson regression model and descriptive statistics. Poisson regression model accounts for the nonnegative count variable. A cross-sectional based study was held on 422 randomly selected reproductive age women using primary data which was collected using structured questionnaire through face to face interview. The bivariate findings of the study indicated that the mean children ever borne was 1.92 which below the replacement level. On the other hand, to assess the effect of household income on children ever borne, the Poisson regression model was fitted and significant determinant of children ever born he multiple Poisson regression result shows that Household Yearly income was significant predictor on the mean children ever borne (b= - 0.019 S.E=0.005 Sig =.027 with weld confidence interval 95%) and the incidence rate ratio (found in EX (B) column) is 0.935 which indicates that household income was negative and significant determinant for the incident rate of children ever borne . Furthermore, marital status, educational level, age group, age at first marriage and occupation are significant determinant of children ever borne, while religion is not significant determinant.
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Household yearly income, children ever born and Fertility