ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at many of the variables, comparing couples living in Population and Development Program (PDP) villages with couples living in villages without the program. However, regional differences in Egypt are so great that it will be necessary to treat the Southern and Northern regions separately, almost as if they were different countries. Regional differences are of great interest from a programmatic point of view, since one of the major options open to policy makers is varying the form, content, and intensity of program inputs in different areas depending on differential need, receptivity, cost-effectiveness, and so forth. Contraceptive prevalence is somewhat higher in PDP areas, especially in Upper Egypt. Upper Egyptian women not only wanted more children, but most of them never surpassed the number they desired. Under these conditions women are little motivated to practice family planning.
