GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 28 July)—One in two fertile married women in the Soccsksargen Region prefer not to have more children, results of the 2022 National Demographic and Health […]
GENERAL SANTOS CITY —One in two fertile married women in the Soccsksargen Region prefer not to have more children, results of the 2022 National Demographic and Health Survey showed.Ma. Eileen Berdeprado, Philippine Statistics Authority –Soccsksargen chief statistical specialist who presented the 2022 NDHS, said that 49% of married women aged 15 to 49 in the region do not want more children.
For the same age group of married women, the total fertility rate in Soccsksargen was 2.5 children per woman for the three-year period preceding the survey, which was less than the Philippines’ 1.9 fertility rate, data showed. Fertility rate in Mindanao was highest in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao at 3.1 followed by Zamboanga Peninsula at 2.6 and Soccsksargen at 2.5.
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