Social Welfare and Economics of Family Planning Practice: a Numeric Appreciation of Socio-Economics of Nigerian Family Selection Traits

Abstract

Due to ignorance of unenlightened minds, man to women relation has given rise to unwanted pregnancies, births of unwanted innocent babies and undesirable loss of women and babies. In making efforts to curb further occurrence of such unfortunate instances, governments and institutions had since embarked on enlightenment and family planning programmes. Contributions had since been made and supports granted on improvement of family life. On having access to relevant information on the issue at stake, urge to formulate numerical measure was developed. In this paper, it is aimed to carry out studies of Nigerian women opinions in support of or against using family planning contraceptives and associated quality of life. In fulfillment of aim, sample opinions on related eight factors of three hundred and eighteen women were demographically processed. Economic selection traces were formulated and related to government supports and insurance covers. The test values obtained revealed that families which initially selected Norplant were likely switching on to Diaphragm. In future, such families would likely resort to use of Condom.

Keywords: characterization by factors, selection traces relations, welfare supports and decision making analysis