"Transitions contraceptives : Quelques points forts d’une nouvelle analyse des données"

le Lundi 24 Mars 2025 à l’Ined de 11h30 à 12h30, en présentiel en salle Sauvy & en visioconférence via ZOOM

“Contraceptive transitions : Some highlights from a new review of evidence"

Intervenant.es : John B. Casterline (Ohio State University, Colombus) & Nathalie Sawadogo (université J.Ki-Zerbo Burkina Faso) & Jamaica Corker (université Washington) ; discutante : Heini Vaïsänen (Ined, Univ. Southampton, journal Demographic research)

The substantial increase in contraceptive use, particularly “modern” methods, since 1960 constitutes a revolutionary social and behavioral change.  What accounts for population-level contraceptive transitions?  Is there a universal pattern with variations in timing and rates of change from low to high rates of contraceptive use, or are there a wider range of pathways?  And how are contraceptive transitions related to – or distinct from – fertility transitions?  A recently published Supplement to Population and Development Review – a product of the work of an IUSSP panel -- contains eight articles that wrestle with these questions.  The aim in assembling this collection was a set of essays that synthesize the extensive scholarship of the past few decades on contraceptive change, critique this scholarship, identify unresolved issues, and suggest promising ways forward.  The Supplement includes a range of disciplinary perspectives on contraceptive transitions and population-level contraceptive change – demography, sociology, economics, epidemiology.  For this presentation, we highlight arguments and conclusions in the essays that may seem surprising and/or that challenge prevalent assumptions among scholars.

Biographie de John B. Casterline :

John B. Casterline is Professor Emeritus in Sociology and the Institute for Population Research at Ohio State University, where he served on the faculty 2007-2023.  John B. Casterline conducts research on fertility transition and reproductive behavior in low- and middle-income societies.  He has participated in primary data collection projects in the Philippines, Pakistan, Egypt, Ghana, and Nigeria.  John B. Casterline is past-President of the Population Association of America [2019].  He has also served on the Governing Council of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population [IUSSP].  Jonh B. Casterline holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan (1980) and a BA from Yale College (1969).

Biographie de Nathalie Sawadogo :

 

Nathalie Sawadogo est démographe, enseignante-chercheuse à l’Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population de l’Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo (Burkina Faso). Ses recherches portent principalement sur les inégalités sociales en matière de respect des droits des individus en matière de santé, et notamment des droits sexuels et reproductifs des groupes vulnérables à différentes périodes du cycle de vie. Elle finalise actuellement la mise en oeuvre d’une recherche action sur les stratégies d’autonomisation des adolescentes mères au Burkina Faso et coordonne une recherche sur la place du Misoprostol dans l’amélioration de la santé maternelle au Burkina Faso.

Biographie de Jamaica Corker :

Jamaica Corker is a demographer with over fifteen years’ experience in demographic research and family planning & reproductive health programs, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. She has worked extensively in health and family planning program research and implementation, including with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, PSI, and the WHO and CDC as part of the West African Ebola response. Jamaica has lived and worked in the DRC, Switzerland, Guinea and China, and through it all has maintained a keen interest in better understanding and improving research methods and measurement for contraceptive decision making. She has an MSc from the London School of Economics and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.