Common use of Data and Methods Clause in Contracts

Data and Methods. This analysis uses matched couples’ data from DHS surveys in 10 sub-Saharan African countries to investigate spousal agreement (or disagreement) on a range of family planning issues. The analysis uses data from Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Mali in West and Central Africa, and from Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe in Eastern and Southern Africa. The surveys were conducted between 1999 and 2004. The data for women are based on women age 15-49, while the data for men are based on men aged 15-59 (with the exception of Malawi and Benin, where men are age 15-54 and 15-64, respectively). The men’s questionnaire is similar in structure to the women’s questionnaire but shorter. To the extent possible, questions and response categories in both questionnaires are worded identically to be comparable across countries. In this analysis, infecundity is measured by childbearing experience of the woman, that is, a woman is defined as infecund if she has had no births and no pregnancies in the past five years but has had a birth or pregnancy at some time, and has been married for the past five years but did not use a contraceptive method during that period. Wealth status of the household is measured using the wealth index. The wealth index is constructed from household asset data using principal components analysis (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, 2004). Based on the first factor loading, the wealth index score divides the population into five quintiles. In this paper, “poor” refers to the bottom two quintiles, “middle” refers to the middle quintile, and “rich” refers to the top two quintiles.