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Abortion, Birth Control, and Contraception: Fertility Decline in Norway
- Journal of Interdisciplinary History
- The MIT Press
- Volume 34, Number 2, Autumn 2003
- pp. 209-234
- Article
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Between 1890 and 1930, fertility in Norway was halved; four variables accounted for 63 percent of explained variance. Socioeconomic factors were clearly more important than cultural onesÑa finding that does not necessarily contradict results found in other studies: Within a homogenous cultural framework, fertility decline tends to follow socioeconomic development. Qualitative findings corroborate the regression analysis: Districts where women made their earliest and most active use of the right to vote for ParliamentÑobtained in 1913Ñalso pioneered early fertility decline.