RURAL WOMEN'S ATTITUDES TOWARD MORE CHILDREN REPRODUCTION IN ONE OF KAFR EL-SHEIKH VILLAGE

Document Type : Original Article

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Agriculture Extension And Rural Development Research Institute, ARC, Egypt

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to identify the rural wives' attitudes toward More Children Reproduction at  Shabas Elmalh village.
A systematic random sample of 111 rural wives were personally interviewed by using a questionnaire to collect the data. The wives' attitudes toward More Children Reproduction were measured as a dependent variable by using a dichotomous measure. The discriminate analysis technique was used to compare between the two groups of the dependent variable. That is, approvals vs. oppositions considering 9 discriminating variables.
     The results indicated that there were significant differences between the rural wives of the two groups regarding five discriminating variables. The discriminating variables explained 41.2% of the discrimination between the two groups. The classification results revealed that 81.1% of the rural wives were correctly classified according to the discriminating variables. The probability of group membership calculated by tau was reached around 62.2%.
 

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