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Older adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health behaviors vary based on an individual’s geographic setting in rural or urban areas, practice of polygamy, and couple and community education levels.

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What are social norms?

Older adolescents’ use of family planning methods, especially for spacing births, depend on a number of factors, which may affect men and women differently. Examples of factors that may be associated with variations in use of family planning for spacing births are:

The following factors have been categorized into the most relevant level of the socio-ecological framework1 for simplicity, although elements of each factor may be relevant to more than one category.

Individual

  •  Religion2
  • Migrant vs resident husbands3
  • Nomadic pastoralist women vs semi-nomadic pastoralist women4

Interpersonal

  • Couple and Community Education5
  • Polygamy6
  • Couple and Community Socio-economic Status7

Community
• Post-conflict Settings8
• Geographic Setting (Urban and Rural)9