Philippine Center for Population Development

Research Reports - Investigating Men's Pronatalism in Selected Provinces in the Philippines

The study  explores currently married males’ pronatalism in selected municipalities in the poorest provinces in the Philippines by combining the responses of currently married males for the desired number of children, approval of family planning, and contraceptive use to come up with a single measure of the index of pronatalism. Those who score highest in the index are those who desire six or more children, who disapprove of FP, and who have never used any FP method, and are hence considered the most pronatalist.