Pakistan, with an estimated population of 135.6 million in 1999, and annual growth rate of 2.3 percent has a rapid growth in population because of sustained high fertility which is still around 5.0 children. Using data of 7584 currently married women from a nationally representative sample...

The findings of an earlier study revealed that generally, even those women who were considered to be empowered, were actually constrained to exercise fertility control behaviour. It was hypothesised that socio-cultural influences are much too strong to yield any bearing on the decision-making...