Family planning is a critical issue in countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, where high fertility rates …

implications of these dynamics for fertility outcomes in SSA. …

Scholars suggest that in high fertility settings where there is high wanted fertility, lowering the desired family size … is a necessary precondition for fertility declines. Though accumulated evidence has linked socio-economic developments to … changes in fertility desires, little efforts have taken to disentangle the relative importance of key socio …