Two themes emerge in the literature on the determinants of fertility in most Third World countries: the role of social and economic transformation and the role of ideational changes. These factors are thought to foster the independence of nuclear family and increase women's abil…
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Post World War II has witnessed an ever-increasing trend in metropolitan concentration in both developed and developing nations. The post-industrial western economies have gone through an evolutionary process of urban concentration, deconcentration, and perhaps even reconcentrat…
Most of the previous studies on life cycle stages and migration have been done using data from developed countries. This study represents one of the first attempts to study this topic using data from a developing country. The main purposes of this study were: (1) to examine the …
This study examines the impact of time cost and socio-psychological factors on the changes in slope and intercepts of the traditional Travel Cost Recreation Demand Models. The value of human time for recreation, and consumer's surplus measures are also calculated. The technology…
This study explores the relationships between ethnic and social factors, health care and mortality differentials during the first two years of life. The data come from the Senegal Infant Mortality Survey (EMIS), a follow-up study of 4,978 births during the first 28 months of lif…
Ethnicity is a social construct defined not only by socio-cultural variables, but also by the socioeconomic and social structure within which it develops. In this regard, ethnicity is a by-product, and at the same time a contributor to the spatial structure of human communities.…
While the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) for Peninsular Malaysia began falling in the late 1950s, it did not do so uniformly for all three main ethnic groups. While the TFR for Chinese and Indians has steadily declined, it levelled off for Malays from the late 1970s, creating an inc…
The purpose of this study is to assess the process of social adaptation among migrants of different ethnic groups in Port-Harcourt, Nigeria. It argues that some migrants adjusted while others did not because of differences in their cultural background and in the socialization of…
The dissertation studies ethnic differences in the levels of fertility and women's extra-domestic employment in the Gezira area of central Sudan. The study examines the demographic behavior of three ethnic groups: (1) The Riverian Arabs, (2) The West Africans, and (3) The Wester…
The migration of the trained national Seventh-day Adventist Church workers is one of the most critical problems facing present-day church administrators in the Middle East Union of the Afro-Mideast Division. Because of this migration a serious shortage of trained personnel exist…
Data pertaining to a 1982 birth cohort from Matlab, Bangladesh, are analysed to test the thesis that excess female mortality in the first months of life arises from deliberate and selective behaviour by parents. This selectivity has strategic value for family welfare in a societ…
This study explored the extent and nature of fertility behavior differentials among the three major ethnic groups (Malays, Chinese, and Indians) in Peninsular Malaysia, through use of data from the 1974 Malaysian Fertility and Family Survey, conducted as part of the World Fertil…
The research effort in this dissertation was directed at identifying the differentials in human fertility of ever-married Libyan women based on the 1973 population census data and explaining the obtained differentials in terms of the effect of a set of selected variables which w…
This research is concerned with the determinants of birth intervals in natural and controlled fertility populations. The paper identifies and discusses direct and indirect determinants of birth intervals. Single and multistate event history models are used in the statistical ana…
In many Asian societies sons are preferred over daughters which is indicated by the stated desired gender composition of children and by the excess mortality of girls. The present study examines: (i) the effect of gender preferences on fertility regulation behavior and fertility…
Using data from the 1979-80 Asian Marriage Survey, this dissertation examines the determinants of the timing and arrangement of marriages for both men and women in Central Java. Trends in marriage patterns and their relationship to family background, education, pre-marital work …
This dissertation addresses the question of how race and gender interact to affect the participation of women in the economic development of Peninsular Malaysia. Four aspects of opportunities for women were analyzed: labor force participation; educational attainment; occupationa…
The study examines an association between the household context and women's work, based on the Indonesian experience. With a sexual division of labor, women take supportive roles and tend to work as secondary income earners if they are involved in economic activity. Family and s…
This dissertation is concerned with describing and explaining patterns of labor allocation among households in four villages located in Central Java, Indonesia. Emphasis is placed upon analyzing the role of geographical mobility as a strategy of labor allocation. The theoretical…