A study of the modernity attitude of married women and its relation to fertility

Abstract

The study was designed to find out the relationship of the wives’ modernity attitude to number of pregnancies, the indicator of fertility. The 460 married women whose ages ranged from fourteen to forty-four randomly selected from Lambunao, Passi, Estancia, and Iloilo City served as the sample. There were 115 respondents randomly selected from each place mentioned above.

The instrument used to gather the data was the “Family Life Interview Schedule” prepared and validated by Central Philippine University Research Center. Only sections three and ten of the interview schedule were used for this particular study. Section three was used to gather the data of the respondents’ number of pregnancies and section ten is a scale used to measure the respondents’ modernity attitude as determined by the four inventories namely: political, economic, familial, and social factors. The number of pregnancies was considered as the dependent variable and modernity attitude as determined by the political, economic, familial, and social factors as independent variables.