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.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on migration in and from Swaziland - presents the results of 1976-77 surveys of internal migration, emigration and attitudes and behaviour of migrant workers in South Africa R, etc., makes economic policy and social policy recommendations, and forms part of a WEP...

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper on implications of rural area labour market characteristics for child labour and fertility behaviour in South East Asia, esp. Bangladesh - illustrates, with a village case study, the impact of wage rates, seasonal unemployment, nonfarm employment employment...

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

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on a simultaneous equations economic model of household behaviour - constitutes part of a WEP research project on population and employment. References and statistical tables.

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...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper evaluating social and cultural anthropologycal aspects of relations between family budget and fertility behaviour in Ghana - explains data collecting and evaluation techniques, analyses the impact of social change on parental roles, sexual division of labour, value...

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper presenting a classification scheme for the social roles of women, intended to assist field workers in data collecting and data analysis relevant to the understanding of a range of demographic aspects and employment issues - suggests a framework of role behaviour...