Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.3126/npj.v18i17.26377
D. Shakya
This study attempts to examine the effects of some selected socio-economic variables like level of education, occupation, current working status, wealth index, place of residence and frequency of exposure to mass media like newspapers/magazines, radio and television; demographic variables like age group, age at first sex, marital status, migration status and travelling away from home in the past 12 months; and cultural variables like religion and caste/ethnicity, and spatial distribution by ecological zones, development regions and provinces on condom use by Nepalese youth males at last sex with most recent partner other than wife or non-live-in partner using multivariate logistic regression analysis. It has used 2016 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey data files with weighted cases. Data are analyzed using percentage and frequency tables and statistical tests are carried out using binomial logistic regression analysis of dependent variable controlling for the independent variables presented in the table of this study. The significant findings of the study are that youth males with primary level of education are less likely to use condom at last sex with most recent partner other than wife or non-live- in partner than those who have higher than secondary level of education. Not working youth males are more likely to use condom than those engaged agricultural occupation. Likewise, ever married youth males are less likely to use condom than their never married counterparts. Newar youth males are less likely to use condom than youth males of Hill Chhetri. Youth males living in Terai are less likely to use condom than youth males living in Hill. Similarly, youth males living in Far-western region are more likely to use condom compared to their counterparts of Central regions.
{"title":"Condom use by Nepalese youth at last sex with most recent partner other than wife or non-live-in partner","authors":"D. Shakya","doi":"10.3126/npj.v18i17.26377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/npj.v18i17.26377","url":null,"abstract":"This study attempts to examine the effects of some selected socio-economic variables like level of education, occupation, current working status, wealth index, place of residence and frequency of exposure to mass media like newspapers/magazines, radio and television; demographic variables like age group, age at first sex, marital status, migration status and travelling away from home in the past 12 months; and cultural variables like religion and caste/ethnicity, and spatial distribution by ecological zones, development regions and provinces on condom use by Nepalese youth males at last sex with most recent partner other than wife or non-live-in partner using multivariate logistic regression analysis. It has used 2016 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey data files with weighted cases. Data are analyzed using percentage and frequency tables and statistical tests are carried out using binomial logistic regression analysis of dependent variable controlling for the independent variables presented in the table of this study. \u0000The significant findings of the study are that youth males with primary level of education are less likely to use condom at last sex with most recent partner other than wife or non-live- in partner than those who have higher than secondary level of education. Not working youth males are more likely to use condom than those engaged agricultural occupation. Likewise, ever married youth males are less likely to use condom than their never married counterparts. Newar youth males are less likely to use condom than youth males of Hill Chhetri. Youth males living in Terai are less likely to use condom than youth males living in Hill. Similarly, youth males living in Far-western region are more likely to use condom compared to their counterparts of Central regions.","PeriodicalId":85185,"journal":{"name":"Nepal population and development journal","volume":" 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91414731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.3126/npj.v18i17.26429
Bhagabati Sedain
Adolescence and youth are the healthiest period of life. Despite being a healthy period of life, the people of this age group also suffer significantly higher deaths and disease conditions. This paper analyzes level, trend of all causes mortality and causes of mortality among population aged 10-24 years. Datasets on population aged 10-24 years; number of deaths and cause-specific mortality were obtained from the Global Health Data Exchange platform (GHDx) of the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation. This paper utilized broad causes of mortality and the variables: number and death rates for the years 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015. The estimated number of deaths for aged 10-24 years in SAARC countries is 640,000. About 80% of the deaths occurred in Afghanistan and India. Maldives has the lowest mortality rate. In Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan, the combination of injuries and non-communicable diseases are the major causes of deaths whereas in Afghanistan, Maldives and Sri Lanka, injuries. Majority of female population in all countries died from communicable, maternal, neonatal, causes. In addition to those causes, natural disaster, war also significantly attributed to adolescent and youth mortality in SAARC region. Overall SAARC region data shows that adolescent and youth death rate has declined between 2000 and 2015. There should be regional priorities for the prevention of adolescent and youth deaths recognizing these causes of deaths. Since these findings are based on GBD estimates, there is an urgent need for new evidence based research to examine the validity.
{"title":"Mortality patterns of adolescent and youth in SAARC countries: Findings from the global burden of disease","authors":"Bhagabati Sedain","doi":"10.3126/npj.v18i17.26429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/npj.v18i17.26429","url":null,"abstract":"Adolescence and youth are the healthiest period of life. Despite being a healthy period of life, the people of this age group also suffer significantly higher deaths and disease conditions. This paper analyzes level, trend of all causes mortality and causes of mortality among population aged 10-24 years. Datasets on population aged 10-24 years; number of deaths and cause-specific mortality were obtained from the Global Health Data Exchange platform (GHDx) of the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation. This paper utilized broad causes of mortality and the variables: number and death rates for the years 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015. \u0000The estimated number of deaths for aged 10-24 years in SAARC countries is 640,000. About 80% of the deaths occurred in Afghanistan and India. Maldives has the lowest mortality rate. In Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan, the combination of injuries and non-communicable diseases are the major causes of deaths whereas in Afghanistan, Maldives and Sri Lanka, injuries. Majority of female population in all countries died from communicable, maternal, neonatal, causes. In addition to those causes, natural disaster, war also significantly attributed to adolescent and youth mortality in SAARC region. Overall SAARC region data shows that adolescent and youth death rate has declined between 2000 and 2015. There should be regional priorities for the prevention of adolescent and youth deaths recognizing these causes of deaths. Since these findings are based on GBD estimates, there is an urgent need for new evidence based research to examine the validity.","PeriodicalId":85185,"journal":{"name":"Nepal population and development journal","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72695618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.3126/npj.v18i17.26381
K. Adhikari
The aged long conventional unidimensional definition and measurement of poverty ‘lack of money’ in most countries is being replaced by the multidimensional approach and methodology. The launching of MPI report in 2018 implied Nepal also officially to adopt this in national poverty measurement policy strategy. This paper is aimed at to sensitize methodological aspects of MPI among academic and policy implications in Nepalese context. Debate on multidimensional poverty research in addressing rampant poverty dates back the advent of basic-needs and the physical quality of life index approaches of 1970s but both failed to establish a valid and reliable deprivation score to divide population as poor and non-poor like in income line approach. Human development index gave basis to rank countries into four groups as very high, high, medium and low level of human development. However it could not offer a precise deprivation score to divide population into-two as in absolute deprivation and non-deprivation as well as population in borderline of deprivation as alternatives of income poverty. It is the Alkire and Foster’s (2007 and 2010) MPI methodology/approach of OPHI and successively adopted in human development reports of UNDP, aggressively being adopted as alternatives of conventional income line methods of poverty measurement and targeting policies. Three dimensional and ten indicators equally weighted MPI based on the same conceptual groundings of ‘capability, wellbeing and functions’ of Sen are taken as reliable alternative to the conventional income approach of poverty measurement. With the official release of national MPI study report in January 2018, Nepal adopted MPI in its policy option in targeting population living in multiple web of poverty and their targeting. The study found poverty and deprivation studied from MPI perspective is vital to attain multiple goals of 2030 SDGs.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.3126/npj.v18i17.26380
L. Kunwar
There is unique historical, socio-economic and political relationship between Nepal and India. Nepal and India has open boarder and there is long history of people’s migration from one country to another by crossing the border. There is no need of any formal document documents (passport, visa) for people of both country in cross border migration process Therefore, this study is confined to analyze the factors associated with cross border migration process of Nepalese people to India. In total, 809 households were randomly selected from studied VDC Daijee of Kanchanpur district. Structured questionnaires were designed to collect the information. In study Daijee VDC of Kanchanpur, out of 809 households, 426 households were cross border migrants households (current and returned). Ancestor’s participation, information provided by friends, self-decision of migrants themselves and moving alone by crossing border were reported as main contributors in cross border migration process.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.3126/npj.v18i17.26382
Bijaya Mani Devkota
Fertility plays an important role in any demographic transition and total fertility rate (TFR) is one of the basic measurements of fertility. Absences of complete and reliable data, a large number of indirect techniques have been developed to estimate the demographic parameters with incomplete data. Some of these techniques are based on utilizing the data from stable population theory while others are based on the regression technique in which the parameters are estimated through regression equations between the dependent variable which is the TFR and the independent variables which is the socio economic well as demographic variables. The first method is based on the relationship between the Total fertility rate (TFR) and contraceptive prevalence rate for all women. By using this modified estimate of TFR, demographic analysis can easily calculate the birth averted for different regions as well as states also. In fact, provide reasonable estimates of births averted due to contraceptive use by national populations. The variables are CPR that about 51.2 percent variation in TFR can be explained by the first regression approach. The second is based on the relationship between total fertility rate (TFR) and Additive combination of CPR and proportion of currently married females having open birth interval. Using new predictor variable, the improved model explained about 55percent of the variation in TFR. The findings reveal that the values of TFR calculated by the present method are quite close to the observed values of the TFR without involving much computational complexities at different background characteristics. Estimates of births averted and the percent change in births in the absence of contraception, based on the two methods, are fairly consistent.
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{"title":"Reflections on civil society and gender.","authors":"P Thacker","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85185,"journal":{"name":"Nepal population and development journal","volume":" Spec No","pages":"52-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22020247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human resource development planning for sustainable health and population programmes.","authors":"S P Adhikari","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85185,"journal":{"name":"Nepal population and development journal","volume":" Spec No","pages":"88-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22020251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unmet need for family planning in Nepal.","authors":"S Thapa","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85185,"journal":{"name":"Nepal population and development journal","volume":" Spec No","pages":"98-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22019657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effective family planning service delivery: testing of a new approach.","authors":"M M Sainju","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85185,"journal":{"name":"Nepal population and development journal","volume":" Spec No","pages":"48-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22020246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interdependence of population and environment on sustainable development: what stake do women have?","authors":"S R Thapa","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85185,"journal":{"name":"Nepal population and development journal","volume":" Spec No","pages":"81-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22020250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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