| Title |
REGIONAL SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ADOLESCENT FERTILITY: THE CASE OF LITHUANIA / |
| Authors |
Pociūtė - Sereikienė, Gintarė ; Tretjakova, Vaida ; Ubarevičienė, Rūta ; Šumskaitė, Lina |
| ISBN |
9781897721698 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Regional Studies Association 2019 Annual Conference: Pushing Regions Beyond Their Borders.. Santiago de Compostela, Ispanija : Regional Studies Association, 2019. p. 155.. ISBN 9781897721698 |
| Keywords [eng] |
Adolescent fertility ; fertility rate ; Lithuania |
| Abstract [eng] |
Lithuania is one of the countries that has a relatively high level of adolescent fertility. Despite the fact that adolescent fertility rate (AFR) has decreased in the last decades, this indicator in Lithuania is still around three times higher than in Scandinavian countries and two times higher compared to Western European countries. According to worldwide analysis (United Nations, 2013), higher levels of adolescent fertility are characteristic of developing and poor countries. In those cases when high AFR is observed in developed regions, research links it to social and economic inequalities within countries (Santelli et al. 2017) and inadequate sexual education. Therefore, probable determinants of high AFR hide inside Lithuania: it might be the gap in sexual education or influenced by unequal socio-spatial development of the country. In this presentation we leave the topic of sexual education aside and focus our attention on the socioeconomic environment of the country. Our findings show that AFR is significantly higher in less developed peripheral rural regions and lower in the municipalities of major cities. The object of this presentation is to look into the association of adolescent fertility rate and a number of different demographic and socioeconomic indicators. Based on the findings of the correlation analysis we intend to answer the question of how much of the spatial differentiation of adolescent fertility rate can be explained by macro level regional socioeconomic disadvantage. The presentation introduces the geographical component of the research project \"Spatial differentiation of adolescent fertility in Lithuania: socioeconomic environment, the role of sexual education and individual experiences\" (financed by the Lithuanian Research Council, contract No. SMIP-17-115). |
| Published |
Santiago de Compostela, Ispanija : Regional Studies Association, 2019 |
| Type |
Conference paper |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2019 |
