OFACTORS INFLUENCING FERTILITY AMONG WOMEN IN UGANDA. A CASE STUDY OF CENTRAL UGANDA.

The study explored the factors influencing fertility among women in central region of Uganda. UDHS (2006) dataset was used as the source in this research where a sample size for central region was 1583 extracted from the whole female data of 8531.The study focused on women age 15-49 (reproductive age group). Two levels of analysis were used, univariate and bivariate and the data was analysed using SPSS.
According to this research, the results from the study suggest that the study population comprise mainly young age group (below 25 years of age) and age group 15-19 had the highest distribution and the number of mothers married was falling by their age at first marriage and most women were Catholics with 39 percent. Place of residence, age at first marriage, education status and contraceptive-use were significantly associated with fertility, however religion was not significant.
The study concluded that, early age at first marriage is responsible for the delay fertility transition in any society and keeping girls in school would reduce on their exposure to risk of child bearing. Education is inversely associated with fertility levels of woman because of its effects of keeping girls at school there by reducing on their exposure to risk of child bearing. In addition education helps in improving the mothers’ acceptabil