Download or read book Reproduction and Social Organization in Sub Saharan Africa written by Ron J. Lesthaeghe and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike most Asian and Latin American countries, sub-Saharan Africa has seen both an increase in population growth rates and a weakening of traditional patterns of child-spacing since the 1960s. It is tempting to conclude that sub-Saharan countries have simply not reached adequate levels of income, education, and urbanization for a fertility decline to occur. This book argues, however, that such a socioeconomic threshold hypothesis will not provide an adequate basis for comparison. These authors take the view that any reproductive regime is also anchored to a broader pattern of social organization, including the prevailing modes of production, rules of exchange, patterns of religious systems, kinship structure, division of labor, and gender roles. They link the characteristic features of the African reproductive regime with regard to nuptiality, polygyny, breastfeeding, postpartum abstinence, sterility, and child-fostering to other specifically African characteristics of social organization and culture. Substantial attention is paid to the heterogeneity that prevails among sub-Saharan societies and considerable use is made, therefore, of interethnic comparisons. As a result the book goes considerably beyond mere demographic description and builds bridges between demography and anthropology or sociology. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Download or read book The World Fertility Survey written by World Fertility Survey and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book World Fertility Survey written by World Fertility Survey and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lesotho Social Sciences Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lesotho s Fertility Trend written by Moliehi Matabane and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Comparative Evaluation of Data Quality in Thirty eight World Fertility Surveys written by United Nations. Department of International Economic and Social Affairs. Population Division and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Download or read book Preparing Migration Data for Subnational Population Projections written by United Nations. Department of International Economic and Social Affairs and published by New York : United Nations. This book was released on 1992 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Demography Analysis and Synthesis Four Volume Set written by Graziella Caselli and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 2857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume collection of over 140 original chapters covers virtually everything of interest to demographers, sociologists, and others. Over 100 authors present population subjects in ways that provoke thinking and lead to the creation of new perspectives, not just facts and equations to be memorized. The articles follow a theory-methods-applications approach and so offer a kind of "one-stop shop" that is well suited for students and professors who need non-technical summaries, such as political scientists, public affairs specialists, and others. Unlike shorter handbooks, Demography: Analysis and Synthesis offers a long overdue, thorough treatment of the field. Choosing the analytical method that fits the data and the situation requires insights that the authors and editors of Demography: Analysis and Synthesis have explored and developed. This extended examination of demographic tools not only seeks to explain the analytical tools themselves, but also the relationships between general population dynamics and their natural, economic, social, political, and cultural environments. Limiting themselves to human populations only, the authors and editors cover subjects that range from the core building blocks of population change--fertility, mortality, and migration--to the consequences of demographic changes in the biological and health fields, population theories and doctrines, observation systems, and the teaching of demography. The international perspectives brought to these subjects is vital for those who want an unbiased, rounded overview of these complex, multifaceted subjects. Topics to be covered: * Population Dynamics and the Relationship Between Population Growth and Structure * The Determinants of Fertility * The Determinants of Mortality * The Determinants of Migration * Historical and Geographical Determinants of Population * The Effects of Population on Health, Economics, Culture, and the Environment * Population Policies * Data Collection Methods and Teaching about Population Studies * All chapters share a common format * Each chapter features several cross-references to other chapters * Tables, charts, and other non-text features are widespread * Each chapter contains at least 30 bibliographic citations

Download or read book Asia Region Population Projections 1988 89 Edition written by My T. Vu, Eduard R. Bos and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asia region now has more than half the world's population and contributes half the world's annual population growth.

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Download or read book Evaluation of the Lesotho Fertility Survey 1977 written by Ian Timaeus and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report attempts to clarify the nature and extent of reporting errors in the Lesotho Fertility Survey (LFS) of 1977. It contains a brief account of the characteristics of Lesotho's Populations and of the 1977 WFS, a discussion of the various types of error often present in demographic survey data, considers coverage errors and nonresponses in the survey, and provides a detailed assessment of the information collected upon age, nuptiality, fertility, and mortality. In this analysis focus is on 3 types of errors: misreporting of age of the respondent, omission of vital events, and displacement of dates of vital events. These 3 major response errors are interrelated and the effects of 1 type may be indistinguishable from those of another. The most serious problems with the individual survey data are linked to the shortfall in the size of the sample. Interviewers appear to have adopted a variety of strategems to minimize the number of women they interviewed. The most important of these was to return ages of 50 or more for respondents who were in fact eligible for inclusion in the survey, resulting in the exclusion of a number of potential respondents 50 that older women and uneducated women are underrepresented in the sample. Apart from this problem, reporting of age appears to have been very good in both household and individual surveys. The data are subject to only moderate heaping and do not appear to be greatly biased apart from some exaggeration of age among the elderly. Yet, there are some minor errors that have a perceptible effect on certain demographic estimates. It seems that in the individual survey ages 35-59 were subject to slight underreporting and that there was a net movement of older women into the 30-34 year old age group. There was substantial heaping on age 44, suggesting that appreciable numbers of 45-49 year old respondents will have been included in the 40-44 year old age group. These biases in the sample and errors in the age data have an appreciable effect upon certain fertility and mortality estimates obtained from the LFS. The estimates are further biased by a tendency for high parity women to omit births and by displacement of the dates of births on the part of older women. Every indication is that these errors are of little importance for respondents aged less than 40 at the time of the survey. Estimates of the level, trend, and pattern of fertility obtained from the birth histories of women aged less than 40 seem very reliable and indicate that fertility remained constant for a considerable period before the survey and that the total fertility rate is about 5.7. The retrospective information on marriage, widowhood and divorce is of a reasonably high quality as is the age and fertility data collected in the household survey. Estimates of the level and pattern of mortality in childhood obtained from birth histories seem reliable for the decade before the survey and suggest a slow but steady decline in the infant mortality rate.

Download or read book Federal Program Evaluations written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies.

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Download or read book Lesotho Population Sector Review written by Jeannette Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: