우리나라 부인의 피임수용성 및 사용양상에 관한 연구

Abstract

The individual survey in 1974 Korean National Fertility Survey , based on 5.420 ever-married women in the ages 15-49 a subsample of the ever-married women in these ages enumerated in the household survey , provides the basis for much of the analysis presented in this paper, dealing with pattern of contraceptive use as related to background variables. 1. The surveyed womens current degree of expo· sure to risk of conception is defined by a composite varible referred to as exposure status" in this study. By the definition employed, two-third of all evermarried women 15-49 areexposed" in the sense that they are currently married. not pregnant, and free of fecundity impairments. About 10 per cent of all surveyed women reported being currently pregnant. Fecundity impairment accounts for 11 per cent of those who were childless. Fecundity impairment generally increases with age 2. Current use of contraception was examined for those women who are fecund and exposed to the risk of conception. thus excluding the unmarried, the currently pregnant, and those with reported fecundity womenimpairments other than voluntary sterilization(either vasectomy or female sterilization) for contraceptive purpose. Of the 3,847 exposed women,who comprised 71 per cent of the ever-married subject to the individual survey. 46 per cent reported current use of contraception. including sterilization for contraceptive purposes. Current use is related quite strongly to the sex com position of the family. Korean couples are not likely to be using contraception much unless have at least two children. In short , the desire for at least two children still exerts a major inBuence on Korean fertility behaviour. The pill (24%) and 100p(23%) are the most popular methods in current use, together comprising half of all use. Condom (15%) and rhythm (13%) follow inorder but are used more by those with small rather than large familes. 3. The respondents in the survey were classified by pattern of contraceptive use, " which combines in a summary fashion several variable examined separa· tely such as current or past use of contraception and a few new variables such as future intention to use among those who never used so far. In this analysis was restricted to the future intentions of the currently married , fecund never-users. Overall, 60 per. cent of them stated an intention for future use, with no variation by current family size. The mean length of the open birth interval for the currently married , fecund women with at least one live birth is 86 per cent longer for those who report ever use of contraception in that interval as compared to those who report no use (56.6 months vs. 30.7 months). 4. More than half (56%) of the exposed women who want no more children (comprising about 22 per cent of all ever-married women in the sample) were not currently using an efficient contraceptive method. The relative size of the group of women who might be given special attention in the family planning programme because of their obvious need for family planning is measured by the proportion of all currently married women who state that they do not want any more children but are not currently using an efficient contraceptive method though exposed. About a third of all currently married women in the ages 15-49. fall into this category.