A general proposition emerging in both historical and comparative contexts is that one response to major social and economic development is the decline of fertility and the transition to a small family size. This study is concerned with the socioeconomic determinants of fertilit…
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Rapid urbanization now makes headlines in Iranian newspapers almost every day. This urbanization is considered to be a consequence of an acceleration in population growth and a large scale migration from rural to urban areas during the last five decades. This study focuses upon …
Beginning in the 1960s fertility rates in India's southern state of Kerala declined significantly. For example, the Crude Birth Rate fell by 30%, from 38.9 in 1961 to 26.2 in 1981. The study reported on here examines the factors responsible for this trend from a perspective diff…
Labor migration within the Arab region has become increasingly significant during the 1970s. It involves large numbers of workers and large sums of money in the form of workers' remittances. In addition, migration in that region cuts across all occupations and affects the supply…
The major objective of this study is to test the applicability of demographic transition theory to developing countries in general and under various cultural conditions. A literature review identifies the theoretical and methodological limitations associated with demographic tra…
Despite increasing attention paid to marital dissolution and remarriage in many developed countries, there has been little focus in demographic studies of Africa on the subject of marital instability. In a comparative study of Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria using World Fertili…
The creation of a neutral zone between the opposing Greek and Turkish sectors of Nicosia is intended to promote refamiliarization of the two estranged communities. The round shape of the city, resulting from its Renaissance fortifications, is examined as an archetypal circular p…
The purpose of this study is to investigate the process of migrant adjustment in Tehran, Iran. Using socialization as a framework, several dimensions of adjustment were examined including occupational characteristics, quality of housing, and ownership of consumer goods. Adjustme…
This study aims to analyze the economic adjustments of migrants in the labor receiving regions. It constructs a conceptual framework that attempts to establish that migrants' aspired income is an important motivational factor in determining women's work behavior in the post-migr…
An analysis of migration patterns and migrant adjustment in peninsular Malaysia is presented, based on data from the Malaysian Family Life Survey. The analysis revealed that urban/rural residence, ethnicity, motivations underlying migration, and manner of securing employment are…
This study examined the determinants of contraceptive use and of contraceptive choice in urban Indonesia. Four dependent variables--status of current contraceptive use, contraceptive choice, number of different methods ever used, and level of method change--were separately analy…
Not much is known about the demographic situation of Ethiopia. In the absence of a national census and vital registration system, demographic data is still scanty. The sources for the available data and their limitations are discussed. The country has been experiencing high leve…
This study examines differentials in desired fertility in Kenya. The research is an empirical analysis of two surveys: the Survey on the Formation and Transformation of Migration Expectations, in which a non-representative sample of approximately 1100 males and females between t…
Scattered health information from small towns, villages, and hospital admissions in large cities in Ethiopia suggest that infectious and parasitic diseases are still predominant. However, careful studies documenting the levels, trends and differentials in child and adult mortali…