Educational outcomes in health and fertility

Research Objectives

• The relationship between women’s schooling and her decision making power

• Whether schooling works through community or individual influences

• Whether the thresholds of effects schooling are stable or changing

objectives

• Whether the relationship between education and health/fertility are changing

• Whether the outcomes of schooling for the poor are different from the less poor

Research focus

• Health and fertility behaviour

• Women's agency and empowerment in relation to:

• Confidence

• Decision making

• Domestic violence

Research design

• Sample selection- Young men and women between the ages of 25-34

• methods

Semi-structured interviews with spouses, husband’s parents

Focused group discussions- other members of the household, target age group

Data analysis

• Use of Atlas-TI to index and sort the material generated