Population StudiesPub Date : 1983-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00324728.1983.10405928
J T Bertrand, W E Bertrand, M Malonga
{"title":"The use of traditional and modern methods of fertility control in Kinshasa, Zaire.","authors":"J T Bertrand, W E Bertrand, M Malonga","doi":"10.1080/00324728.1983.10405928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.1983.10405928","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract The practice of post-partum abstinence has been a long-standing tradition in many societies of tropical Africa, yet recent research suggests an erosion of the taboo on post-partum sexual relations as a means of fertility control. The current study among women in the lower income groups in Kinshasa, Zaire, provides evidence of this. There is strong motivation toward child-spacing, as shown by 80 per cent of the women who reported to be currently practising some means of fertility control: 73 per cent with traditional methods, only 7 per cent with modern contraceptives. There appears to be some carry-over of traditional practice, in that abstinence is related to the age and nursing status of the last born child. However, the most widely practised method is withdrawal. This suggests a desire on the part of this population for alternatives to abstinence, an issue with important implications for future family planning programs in Zaire.</p>","PeriodicalId":501679,"journal":{"name":"Population Studies","volume":" ","pages":"129-36"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00324728.1983.10405928","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30248989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Population StudiesPub Date : 1983-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00324728.1983.10408750
R Rindfuss, A Parnell, C Hirschman
{"title":"The timing of entry into motherhood in Asia: A comparative perspective.","authors":"R Rindfuss, A Parnell, C Hirschman","doi":"10.1080/00324728.1983.10408750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.1983.10408750","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract This paper examines the determinants of age at first birth from an explicitly comparative perspective in the following Asian societies: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Thailand. The key structural variables have the same (or similar) effects in each of the groups examined. Education through primary school and beyond has a strong delaying effect on age at first birth in all eight populations. Difference of rural-urban origin does not affect the timing of motherhood in any of these societies. We also find a remarkably strong effect of shared cultural heritage. All the Confucian groups tend to behave similarly, as do the Muslim and Hindu groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":501679,"journal":{"name":"Population Studies","volume":" ","pages":"253-72"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00324728.1983.10408750","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30254995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Population StudiesPub Date : 1983-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00324728.1983.10405921
J L Simon
{"title":"The present value of population growth in the western world.","authors":"J L Simon","doi":"10.1080/00324728.1983.10405921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.1983.10405921","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract In conventional steady-state growth theory with technical progress exogenous, faster population growth causes lower consumption. This conclusion has influenced national policies. With technical progress endogenous, however, higher population growth causes higher consumption. Steady-state equilibrium analysis is not appropriate for policy decisions, though. Rather, appropriate analysis compares two or more growth rates beginning from equal initial positions, with comparison of the present value of consumption streams per person. In the paper the supply of and demand for knowledge is first analysed and the most plausible technical progress functions are derived. Various population growth rates are then simulated with different specifications and parameters. With virtually every variant, faster population growth shows better consumption with discount rates up to between five and ten per cent above the long-run adjusted riskless rate. With pensions included in the analysis, faster population growth would seem even more beneficial. Even at very high discount rates, lower population growth rates imply present values only a little higher than those for higher population growth rates. The advantage is overwhelmingly with higher population growth in this growth-theoretic analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":501679,"journal":{"name":"Population Studies","volume":" ","pages":"5-21"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00324728.1983.10405921","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30248985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Population StudiesPub Date : 1983-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00324728.1983.10408749
F L Mott, D Shapiro
{"title":"Complementarity of work and fertility among young American mothers.","authors":"F L Mott, D Shapiro","doi":"10.1080/00324728.1983.10408749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.1983.10408749","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract In this paper information about cohorts of young women in the National Longitudinal Survey of Work Experience is used to examine the extent to which women maintain a continuity of work attachment during their early years of childbearing, the years when traditionally they were most likely to withdraw from the work force. The results indicate that women who maintain closer ties to the work force immediately before and after their first birth are also more likely to be employed in 1978 - between five and ten years after their first birth - independently of intervening fertility events and other labour supply factors considered to be important predictors of work. The notion that work and fertility are increasingly becoming complementary activities for American women is supported by these data.</p>","PeriodicalId":501679,"journal":{"name":"Population Studies","volume":" ","pages":"239-52"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00324728.1983.10408749","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30254994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Population StudiesPub Date : 1982-11-01DOI: 10.1080/00324728.1982.10405600
A O Okore
{"title":"A rejoinder to David Lucas.","authors":"A O Okore","doi":"10.1080/00324728.1982.10405600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.1982.10405600","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract In order to clarify the main points at issue, I shall pinpoint some of the major differences between my approach to the study of fertility differentials in Southern Nigeria and that of Lucas.</p>","PeriodicalId":501679,"journal":{"name":"Population Studies","volume":" ","pages":"477-9"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"1982-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00324728.1982.10405600","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30247564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Population StudiesPub Date : 1982-11-01DOI: 10.1080/00324728.1982.10405599
D Lucas
{"title":"Some remarks on the paper by A. Okore, 'Rural-urban fertility differentials in Southern Nigeria: An assessment of some available evidence'.","authors":"D Lucas","doi":"10.1080/00324728.1982.10405599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.1982.10405599","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract In his paper Okore(1) critically examines the view of Olusanya and Ekanem that, partly because of shorter periods of breastfeeding and abstinence associated with 'modernization', urban fertility exceeds rural. Unfortunately, the proponents of this view have produced very few hard data on durations of breast-feeding and abstinence.(2).</p>","PeriodicalId":501679,"journal":{"name":"Population Studies","volume":" ","pages":"475-6"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"1982-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00324728.1982.10405599","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30247563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Population StudiesPub Date : 1982-11-01DOI: 10.1080/00324728.1982.10405598
D C Ewbank
{"title":"The sources of error in Brass's method for estimating child survival: the case of Bangladesh.","authors":"D C Ewbank","doi":"10.1080/00324728.1982.10405598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.1982.10405598","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract Brass's method for estimating child mortality is based on an ingeniously simplified model. However, it frequently leads to values of q(x) that are not consistent with each other. This is most obvious for estimates of q(1). This paper examines the extent to which such inconsistencies are caused by simplifications in the model. Three assumptions are relaxed by adjusting for differences in infant mortality by birth order, taking account of annual fluctuations in mortality, and using a different age pattern of fertility for each cohort. These adjustments are applied to data from the 1974 Bangladesh Retrospective Survey of Fertility and Mortality and the 1975 Bangladesh Fertility Survey in which additional data from the Cholera Research Laboratory are used. The resulting estimates are more consistent both internally and with estimates from other surveys and by other procedures.</p>","PeriodicalId":501679,"journal":{"name":"Population Studies","volume":" ","pages":"459-74"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"1982-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00324728.1982.10405598","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30247561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Population StudiesPub Date : 1982-07-01DOI: 10.1080/00324728.1982.10409033
J N Hobcraft, N Goldman, V C Chidambaram
{"title":"Advances in the P/F ratio method for the analysis of birth histories.","authors":"J N Hobcraft, N Goldman, V C Chidambaram","doi":"10.1080/00324728.1982.10409033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.1982.10409033","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract One of the most frequently used indirect techniques for deriving estimates of recent fertility from simple questions in censuses and surveys is the 'P/F ratio' method. Availability of detailed birth-history data, as in the World Fertility Survey, and applications of the P/F procedure as a diagnostic tool in the evaluation of the quality of data have led to simplifications and extensions of the original method. This analysis illustrates that when complete maternity histories are available, the P/F procedure can be simplified and made more powerful by (1) calculation of P/F values from cohort-period fertility rates and (2) use of two further indexing variables, namely duration since first marriage and duration since first birth, in addition to age. More generally, the paper indicates that a set of P/F values is only one of a battery of measures which aid in the analysis of trends and errors in data from maternity histories. Illustrative examples are given from various analyses of world Fertility Survey data. Howard Goldberg has been independently pursuing an investigation of the P/F procedure by marriage duration at the Office of Population Research (Princeton University), and we have profited from recent discussions with him. We would also like to acknowledge useful comments and criticisms on earlier drafts from James Trussell and Kenneth Hill.</p>","PeriodicalId":501679,"journal":{"name":"Population Studies","volume":" ","pages":"291-316"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"1982-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00324728.1982.10409033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30103819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Population StudiesPub Date : 1982-07-01DOI: 10.1080/00324728.1982.10409027
J Knodel
{"title":"Child mortality and reproductive behaviour in German village populations in the past: A micro-level analysis of the replacement effect.","authors":"J Knodel","doi":"10.1080/00324728.1982.10409027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.1982.10409027","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract Reproductive histories of couples married during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a sample of 14 German villages are analysed in order to answer several questions regarding the relationship between child mortality and reproductive behaviour. An effort is made through selection of cases and use of multiple classification analysis to eliminate or control non-volitional or otherwise confounding influences on the relationship between a couple's experience with child mortality and their fertility. The results do not provide a decisive answer to the question of whether, under a regime of otherwise presumed natural fertility, previous experience of child mortality affected subsequent reproductive behaviour. The evidence was much clearer in indicating that behaviour consistent with replacement efforts emerged or strengthened as family limitation spread. Finally, the results indicated that though it was not necessary for overall child mortality to decline before family limitation practices were adopted, couples with the most favourable child mortality experience were most likely to practise family limitation and to reduce their fertility. Child mortality appeared at least to impede, if not totally prevent, efforts to reduce the number of children ever born or to cease childbearing at an earlier age or at a given parity.</p>","PeriodicalId":501679,"journal":{"name":"Population Studies","volume":" ","pages":"177-200"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"1982-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00324728.1982.10409027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30103391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Population StudiesPub Date : 1982-07-01DOI: 10.1080/00324728.1982.10409032
S K Jain
{"title":"Mortality in Ghana: Evidence from the cape coast project data.","authors":"S K Jain","doi":"10.1080/00324728.1982.10409032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.1982.10409032","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract This paper deals with the estimation of mortality for a rural community of about 20,000 persons in the rain-forest area of south-west Ghana. Specifically, infant, child and adult mortality estimates have been obtained by the application of a wide range of direct and indirect methods of measuring mortality from the different statistics collected by a longitudinal mortality and fertility project conducted during 1974-7. It was noted that infant and childhood mortality rates obtained from death registrations were consistent with those rates yielded by pregnancy histories and child survival statistics. However, the adult mortality estimates derived from orphanhood statistics tended to be lower than those suggested by death registrations. The analysis revealed an infant mortality rate of 100 for boys and 84 for girls, equal childhood mortality rates for boys and girls (85-6), a lower expectation of life at birth for men (45.8 years) than for women (52.8), and a much more severe incidence of mortality among men aged over 40 than for women at the corresponding ages.</p>","PeriodicalId":501679,"journal":{"name":"Population Studies","volume":" ","pages":"271-89"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"1982-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00324728.1982.10409032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30103394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}