Family Planning: Economic Impacts on a Woman (2015)

Undergraduate: Tsion Ghedamu

Faculty Advisor: Trude Bennett
Department: Public Policy

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Every woman in our global community should have the right to access family planning services. Ethiopia has had recent successes in family planning and sexual and reproductive health, by doubling the contraceptive rate in the past couple of years. It is only one of the few countries that have incorporated family planning into many of its health programs. Socioeconomic status has been widely acknowledged as being connected to the use of health services, but information on the use of these services impacting income has been very sparse especially in family planning. This research project is a study of the impact of the economic impacts of family planning on women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This information was collected by a survey that included information on household income, economic status, and employment history of women entering four specific family planning clinics through out Addis Ababa. My findings will be a significant contribution to the literature on the impacts of family planning and socioeconomic status of women in developing nations.