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Taiwan Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice of Contraception Province-Wide Fertility Survey 1986

General Info

Original or alternative title 
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Contraception in Taiwan (KAP VI)
Provider 
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
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Geography 
Taiwan (Province of China) (TWN)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
January, 1986 - March, 1986
Data type
Survey: Household - Individual - Interview
Summary 

Conducted in six rounds between 1965 and 1986, the Taiwan Women Health and Fertility Survey (known variously as the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Contraception in Taiwan Survey, and Family and Fertility in Taiwan Survey) collects information from married women in Taiwan concerning their knowledge of and attitudes toward contraception, as well as their contraceptive practices. The survey also covers a range of demographic characteristics, including age, employment, education, and family composition. The data contains records for 4,312 cases of married women ages 20-49 in non-aboriginal townships in Taiwan.

Keywords 
Abortion, Abortive outcome, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Assets, Birth control pills, Birth place, Breastfeeding, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptives, Diaphragms, Domestic migration, Education, Employment, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family size, Female infertility, Fertility, Health care use, Health insurance, Health literacy, Housing conditions, IUDs, Income, Land ownership, Literacy, Live births, Male infertility, Marital status, Mass media, Menopause, Menstruation, Parental survival, Parents, Pregnancy, Religion, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Siblings, Spermicides, Stillbirths, Summary sibling history, Telephones, Traditional birth control

Citation

Contributors 
Taiwan Provincial Institute of Family Planning
Publisher 
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Suggested citation 

Sun, Te-Hsiung, Chang, Ming-Cheng, Lee, Mei-Ling, and Lin, Hui-Sheng. Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice of Contraception in Taiwan: Sixth Province-Wide Fertility Survey (KAP VI), 1986. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-11-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06867.v1


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