This paper examines the association between social networks and contraceptive use. Using data from a survey of women belonging to voluntary associations in Yaoundé, Cameroon, we find that the behavior and characteristics of the members of a respondent's personal networks are associated with her contraceptive use, over and above a set of her own individual characteristics that are usually found to be important. Respondents who report that their network partners approve of contraception, use it, and encourage the respondent to use are more likely to use contraception themselves; the association with encouragement is particularly strong. Moreover, there is a strong association between the specific methods of contraception used by a respondent and those used by her network partners, suggesting that members of personal networks exchange and evaluate specific methods. Because most of the respondent's network partners were interviewed, we are able to compare the respondent's perceptions of contraceptive use by her network partners with the network partner's actual use. We find that it is perceptions of use that matter, even if those perception are incorrect.

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本文研究了社交网络与避孕药具使用之间的关联。使用来自喀麦隆雅温得自愿协会的妇女的调查数据,我们发现受访者个人网络成员的行为和特征与她的避孕药具使用有关,超出了她自己的一系列个人特征,通常被发现很重要。报告自己的网络伴侣赞成避孕,使用避孕并鼓励受访者使用避孕的受访者更有可能自己使用避孕措施; 与鼓励的联系特别强烈。此外,受访者使用的特定避孕方法与她的网络合作伙伴使用的避孕方法之间存在很强的联系,这表明个人网络成员交换和评估特定方法。由于大多数受访者的网络合作伙伴都接受了采访,因此我们能够将受访者对其网络合作伙伴使用避孕药具的看法与网络合作伙伴的实际使用情况进行比较。我们发现,重要的是对使用的感知,即使这些感知是不正确的。

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