Examines ways of measuring the impact of community and institutional variables on individual fertility.

Working paper presenting a framework for data collecting and data analysis of the social roles of women relevant to the understanding of a range of demographic aspects and employment issues - considers conceptual and methodological difficulties, social anthropological approaches to role...

Based on in-depth interviews with 18 women and a survey of 98 other low income women which were carried out in 1981. Finds that women heads of households are not necessarily economically disadvantaged and suggests that women may be heads of households by choice.