An analysis of a survey of Mississippi women regarding contraception
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Chart book (Center for Mississippi Health Policy)
- Contributor(s):
- Center for Mississippi Health Policy, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Jackson, MS. : Center for Mississippi Health Policy, July 2019
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Contraception -- statistics & numerical data Surveys and Questionnaires Women Mississippi United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- In 2018, the Center for Mississippi Health Policy contracted with researchers at the Department of Social Work at the University of Southern Mississippi to carry out a survey of women of child-bearing age in Mississippi to better understand their knowledge of and behaviors related to contraception as well as any perceived barriers to obtaining effective contraception. The research team developed a survey instrument for women who have given birth and women who have not given birth, as well as a survey design that efficiently identified members of both groups for random selection. A random sample of women with children was obtained via a two-stage stratified probability design. Ninety-five licensed childcare facilities were randomly selected from 1500 licensed childcare centers across the state in the first stage, and two to three classrooms from within the sampled centers were then randomly selected using equal probability systematic sampling. Women of children in the classrooms were given an opportunity to participate in the survey with incentivization, as well as incentivization to recruit acquaintances who were not mothers. In total, 811 responses from mothers of children in the childcare centers and 850 responses from women who were not mothers were included. Data were analyzed for significance at the 95 percent confidence interval and included only survey responses of women of childbearing age (15-44). Survey results are presented for nulliparous (women who have not given birth) and parous (women who have given birth at least once) separately. While survey results may be presented and discussed concurrently, the two groups were recruited differently and reflect different degrees of representativeness to the broader population. Therefore, the two groups cannot be combined for analysis. For analysis presented in this chartbook, unless otherwise specified, “all” represents valid responses to individual questions. Some data columns may not total to 100 percent due to rounding.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (45 pages, 1 unnumbered page))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918334974706676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918334974706676