On the Multivariate Analysis of the level of Use of Modern Methods of Family Planning between Northern and Southern Nigeria

Authors

  • Anthony C. Akpanta ABIA STATE UNIVERSITY
  • Idika E. Okorie

Keywords:

Family Planning, Modern Methods, Multivariate Analysis, Vector Means, Variance- Covariance Matrix, Hotelling’s .

Abstract

The recently published 2013 National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) results show a great apathy in the use of modern family planning methods, despite the whooping financial and material resources being plunged into it. Worried by this insignificant level of use, the need to discern where more of the apathy is (North or South) becomes inevitable. This paper, therefore, stratified the NDHS data on the level of use of the modern methods of Family Planning into two, adopted the Hotelling

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Published

2015-08-29

How to Cite

Akpanta, A. C., & Okorie, I. E. (2015). On the Multivariate Analysis of the level of Use of Modern Methods of Family Planning between Northern and Southern Nigeria. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 24(2), 249–255. Retrieved from https://gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/4206

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2015)

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