Male Attitude and Family Planning Practices in Angola

• Název práce v češtině: Postoj mužů a praktiky rodinného plánovaní v Angole
• Název v anglickém jazyce: Male Attitude and Family Planning Practices in Angola
• Klíčová slova anglicky: family size, family planning,number of children, Angola, sexual awareness
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2017/2018
• Typ práce: bakalářská práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Institut ekonomických studií (23-IES)
• Vedoucí / školitel: doc. PhDr. Julie Chytilová, Ph.D.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno vedoucím/školitelem
• Datum přihlášení: 12.06.2018
• Datum zadání: 12.06.2018
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 09.06.2020 09:00
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 07.05.2020
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 09.06.2020
• Oponenti: Mgr. Marek Šedivý

Seznam odborné literatury

[1] Adsera, A. (2016). Religion and Changes in Family-size Norms in Developed Countries. [online] Research Gate. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239806049_Religion_and_Changes_in_Family-size_Norms_in_Developed_Countries [Accessed 7 Jun. 2018].
[2] United Nations. (2015). Trends in Contraceptive Use Worldwide. [online] Available at: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/family/trendsContraceptiveUse2015Report.pdf [Accessed 7 Jun. 2018].
[3] Nieto-Andrade, B., Fidel, E., Simmons, R., Sievers, D., Fedorova, A., Bell, S., Weidert, K. and Prata, N. (2017). Women's Limited Choice and Availability of Modern Contraception at Retail Outlets and Public-Sector Facilities in Luanda, Angola, 2012–2015. [online] US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5493452/ [Accessed 25 May 2018].
Bongaarts, J. (2011). Can Family Planning Programs Reduce High Desired Family Size in Sub-Saharan Africa?. [online] Guttmacher Institute. Available at: https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/ipsrh/2011/12/can-family-planning-programs-reduce-high-desired-family-size-sub-saharan [Accessed 25 May 2018].
Madsen, E. (2015). What’s Behind West and Central Africa’s Youthful Demographics? High Desired Family Size. [online] New Security Beat. Available at: https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2015/05/whats-west-central-africas-youthful-demographics-high-desired-family-size/ [Accessed 25 May 2018].
Muhoza, D., Broekhuis, A. and Hooimeijer, P. (2014). Variations in Desired Family Size and Excess Fertility in East Africa. [online] Hindawi. Available at: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijpr/2014/486079/ [Accessed 25 May 2018].
The Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability. (n.d.). Angola: Comprehensive Family Planning and Post Abortion Care. [online] Available at: http://bixby.berkeley.edu/what-we-do/core-research/family-planning/angola-comprehensive-family-planning-and-post-abortion-care/ [Accessed 25 May 2018].
World Health Organization. (2018). Family planning/Contraception. [online] Available at: http://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/family-planning-contraception [Accessed 25 May 2018].

Předběžná náplň práce v anglickém jazyce

Research question and motivation
One of the biggest problems of the last century is the rapid growth of the population. The population is still growing up mainly thanks to the developing countries. Even the most people on the Earth come from Asia, its fertility rates are nowadays significantly lower than those in Africa. That’s why I have chosen to analyse the situation in Angola. Moreover, societies in developing countries do not have the greatest conditions to raise children. So it is important to determine if it is the matter of religion, environment, etc. to have big families or it results from ignorance of the possibility of becoming pregnant and lack of contraception.

Contribution
According to existing studies family size is influenced by many factors. For example the ideal number of children is higher for religious families than individuals with no religious affiliation. It also depends on specific religion e.g. Conservative Protestants and Catholics tend to have more than Mainline Protestants. [1] Also in the last decades with the growth of contraceptive use the fertility declines as well. There also appears to have been a more modest increase in the proportion of women wanting no additional children. [2]
In my thesis I would like to extend already existing study to see if there have been some changes. The existing study analyses the data from Luanda, the capital of Angola, between 2012 and 2015 and it concludes that on average the ideal number of children is lower than actual number of children born to a woman. [3] In the case of changes and confirmation that there is a dependence between information and the number of children, the results of the analysis can serve as an indicator for non-profit organizations and the government to support more family planning programmes. They could launch campaigns on sexual protection, sexually transmitted diseases, postnatal care and launch sexual protection itself. This would also improve the quality of health care and life in the analysed country. If mothers care for their children properly, the rate of neonatal mortality, which is very high in African countries, could also fall.

Methodology
Firstly, I will go through the existing literature and I will mainly focus on the existing family planning programs. After that, I will move to the empirical part and analyse the relationship between the awareness of sexual intercourse of individuals and the number of children they have. For this part I am going use questionnaires and data by Demographic and Health Surveys. Except the classical variables such as the age of the woman, education, religion, I am going to use specific questions related to the number of children, sexual intercourse and methods that a couple can use to delay or avoid a pregnancy and I will make a model from them. At last, I will sum up my result.