بعض محددات خصوبة المرأة الفلسطينية في قطاع غزة

Abstract EN

This paper identifies some determinates affecting the fertility of Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip through a social survey.

The study refers to an approved sample demographic health survey (2004) conducted in the Gaza Strip among 1,713 married women.

Results indicate that a group of demographic variables, including economic and social variables, have an impact on the fertility of women in the Gaza Strip.

The results of regression analysis demonstrate the importance of demographic variables, associating age to the current relationship variable and showing a significant direct correlation between fertility and age during a woman’s first marriage.

A change in the level of a woman's education shows a strong inverse relationship to fertility.

It also reveals the existence of a direct correlation between the desire to have more children and impacting child mortality through fertility.

There does not appear to be a statistical significant relationship between fertility and a woman's work, status of asylum, abortions and fetal mortality.