Extent: | Online-Ressource (395 p) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record ""DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Fertility Levels, Differentials, and Trends ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""SOURCES AND QUALITY OF DEMOGRAPHIC DATA IN AFRICA""; ""METHODS FOR ESTIMATING TOTAL FERTILITY RATES""; ""CHARACTERISTICS OF AFRICAN FERTILITY""; ""Estimates of Total Fertility Rates""; ""Shape of the Fertility Distribution""; ""First Births""; ""Timing of Subsequent Births""; ""Socioeconomic Differentials in Achieved Family Size""; ""Place of Residence""; ""Level of Education"" ""RECENT EVIDENCE OF A FERTILITY DECLINE IN COUNTRIES PARTICIPATING IN THE DHS""""Group A: Countries in Which Fertility Declines Have Occurred""; ""Group B: Countries in Which Fertility May be Declining""; ""COMPARISON OF RECENT FERTILITY TRENDS IN AFRICA AND OTHER DEVELOPING REGIONS""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 The Proximate Determinants of Fertility""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""DATA""; ""FRAMEWORK""; ""Marriage or Union Patterns""; ""Contraception""; ""Postpartum Infecundability""; ""Pathological or Primary Sterility""; ""Summary of Model""; ""EMPIRICAL RESULTS"" ""National-Level Results for DHS Countries""""Marriage""; ""Contraception""; ""Postpartum Infecundability""; ""Pathological Sterility""; ""Interpreting the Results""; ""Summary""; ""Differentials for DHS Countries""; ""Age""; ""Residence""; ""Education""; ""Change Over Time: Comparison of WFS and DHS Results""; ""Kenya""; ""Senegal""; ""Sudan""; ""Ghana""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""TECHNICAL NOTES""; ""Data Sources""; ""Derivation of Indices""; ""Index of Marriage""; ""Measured Births Outside Marriage and Adjusted Index of Marriage""; ""Index of Contraception"" ""Index of Postpartum Infecundability""""Index of Sterility""; ""Effects of Indices""; ""APPENDIX""; ""REFERENCES""; ""4 Recent Trends in Marriage Ages ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CONCEPTUAL AND MEASUREMENT ISSUES""; ""Definitions""; ""Problems of Recall and of Age Reporting""; ""Measurement""; ""ASCERTAINING TIME TRENDS IN AGE AT MARRIAGE""; ""Retrospective Evidence from Surveys""; ""Evidence from Current Status Data""; ""AGE AT MARRIAGE AND FERTILITY""; ""Evidence from Retrospective Reports""; ""Proportions Ever Married and Children Ever Born"" ""Changes in Proportions Married and Children Ever Born""""CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDIX: MEDIAN AND MEAN AGE AT FIRST MARRIAGE""; ""REFERENCES""; ""5 Trends in Childhood Mortality""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""DATA DEVELOPMENTS SINCE 1987""; ""NEW COUNTRY DATA AND RESULTS""; ""Botswana and Zimbabwe""; ""Middle and Eastern Africa""; ""Sudan""; ""Western Africa""; ""Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, and The Gambia""; ""Togo, Ghana, and C�te d�Ivoire""; ""Liberia""; ""Nigeria""; ""OVERVIEW OF TRENDS IN COUNTRIES WITH NEW DATA""; ""CONCLUSIONS ON CHILDHOOD MORTALITY TRENDS"" ""APPENDIX A: SUMMARIZATION PROCESS FOR TABLE 5�2: COUNTRY NOTES"" |
ISBN: | 978-0-309-04942-9 ; 978-0-309-56432-8 ; 978-0-309-04942-9 |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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