Metropolitan dominance and diffusion of family planning in the Philippines

The impact of metropolitan dominance on the diffusion of family planning in the Philippines was analyzed. Hypotheses based on the diminishing effect urban centers have on knowledge approval and practice of family planning as distance from the metropolitan core increases, size of the local urban center decreases and level of individual cosmopolitanism increases were tested by means of bivariate correlations. In addition the predictive value of these variables was assessed by chi-square and gamma coefficients. The findings indicate, 1) a decreasing linear relationship between metropolitan dominance and the diffusion of family planning variables; 2) a curvilinear relationship between size of local urban center and the diffusion of family planning; 3) a decreasing linear relationship between level of individual cosmopolitanism and the diffusion of family planning. Furthermore, the findings indicate that the distance from the metropolitan core effect is vitiated when the size of the local urban center exceeds the 20,000. However, the distance from the metropolitan core effect is not conditioned by the level of individual cosmopolitanism.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Department dc:contributor.department

Sociology

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Year dc:date.issued

1974

Author dc:creator

• Sugas-Telionis, Vasso

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/64110

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/64110