ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the importance of the regional location of the couple, that is, whether they lived in Lower or Upper Egypt. It looks at locational aspects, since these can have important consequences for programming. When the demographic and social variables are held constant the range shrinks somewhat, but with a few exceptions the graph lines are quite similar, and several groups of governorates are apparent. Differences among the Lower governorates are minimal, but in Upper Egypt, two groups can be seen: Kena, Souhag, and Assiut prefer the largest families, while the other governorates are somewhat more moderate. A recent analysis of the 1979 Rural Fertility Survey and the 1980 Contraception Prevalence Survey also concluded that a staged population and family planning strategy is needed in order to exploit regional differences. Although governorates were grouped according to geographic proximity rather than according to similarity of impact variables, the general conclusions are not dissimilar from the own.
