ABSTRACT This article aims to examine the relationship between women’s household bargaining power and their adoption of modern contraception in post-Soviet Tajikistan using the 2012 Demographic and Health Survey. The study uses direct measures of bargaining weights: a woman’s ability to make decisions about her own health care; visits to her family or relatives; and contraceptive use. An additional measure defining a woman’s financial capability to receive medical treatment for herself is added in the analysis to understand its correlation to women’s contraceptive-use behaviour. The probability of using contraception is 187 percentage points higher for a woman who has both control over her own health care and financial means to get medical help than a woman who does not have these choices. Having a say in the decision to control births increases the probability of using contraception by 98 percentage points. Our findings reveal that certain aspects of a woman’s household decision-making and financial freedom are relevant to explain her contraceptive-use behaviour.

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后苏联塔吉克斯坦妇女的议价能力和避孕措施的使用

摘要 本文旨在利用 2012 年人口与健康调查研究后苏联塔吉克斯坦妇女的家庭议价能力与其采用现代避孕措施之间的关系。该研究使用直接衡量谈判权重的方法：女性对自己的医疗保健做出决定的能力；探望她的家人或亲戚；和避孕药的使用。分析中增加了一项定义妇女自己接受医疗的经济能力的额外措施，以了解其与妇女使用避孕药具行为的相关性。与没有这些选择的女性相比，能够控制自己的医疗保健和获得医疗帮助的经济手段的女性使用避孕的可能性高出 187 个百分点。在控制生育的决定中拥有发言权可使使用避孕措施的可能性增加 98 个百分点。我们的研究结果表明，女性家庭决策和财务自由的某些方面与解释她的避孕措施使用行为有关。