Rural Small-Scale Women Farmers and Preference for Family Size in South-East Nigeria

Among other things, fertility control in Nigeria may not be feasible without recourse to socioeconomic issues such as micro-occupation classification and dominant family cultural traditions facing women their relationship behaviour. Rural small-scale farmers are a relatively closed group with some uniqueness for the understanding of value children (VOC) contexts its behaviour developing nations. This study, guided by VOC model, focuses on determining factors preference size (0-4 children) among rural Eha-Amufun Enugu state. 200 married (mean age = 33.9; mean at marriage 24.5) from 20 agricultural co-operative societies were selected study. The study adopted survey quantitative research design. Besides sociodemographic information participants, elicited respondents choice size, connection occupation circumstances surrounding son adoption contexts. collected data analysed using ordinal logistic regression model. findings show that economic independence, male child negates limiting sizes 0-4 (p<.05) however, age, formal education, source labour independence positively correlated desire 4 above. In view limitations ability model unveil spurious women, there is need comparative studies groups nations behaviour.Among behaviour.