This study attempts to link several aspects of rural electrification and village-level development to fertility-related behavior, i.e., family planning practice, ideal family size, and children ever born. It argues that the effects of socioeconomic development due to electrifica…
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This study borrows theoretical perspectives applied in studies of migrant fertility--related to migrant selectivity, life disruption, and urban adaptation--to examine urban migration-child mortality interrelationships in three West African countries--Ghana, Mali and Senegal. The…
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, and ranks among the ten most populous countries of the world. It is projected that at the current rate of population growth its population will reach 166 million by the year 2000; and 280 million by the year 2015. In response to th…
The relationship between social status and fertility is examined in this study. Special attention is given to the effects of social status on the value of children, and the effects of these two variables on fertility. Several demographic theories are reviewed, including Social A…
This research investigated depression symptoms rates in a group of Saudi Arabian students, examined the relationship between depression and socioeconomic status, and compared depression scores in Saudi Arabia with obtainable rates in U.S.A. The Ss consisted of 250 male heterogen…
This dissertation employs the discriminating behavior and social integration model to differentiate the characteristics and behavior of spontaneous rural-rural migrant peasant producers from their non-migrant counterparts in West Malaysia. The data for the analysis came from the…
This study is concerned with changing spatial patterns in rapidly growing metropolitan areas in developing countries. The study focuses on the changing ethnic composition and spatial distribution of the population of Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. Most of the population …
This study examines individuals' status attainment in Peninsular Malaysia, an ethnically plural society undergoing socioeconomic transformation. It focuses on the impact of sibship size, sex composition and familial socioeconomic characteristics on education; and that of schooli…
The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the role of female education in changing fertility behavior by studying some of the demographic and socioeconomic factors through which these changes are likely to take place in the context of Indonesian society. The Indonesian …
The present study examines the fertility attitudes of a sample of 220 male Nigerian students who were studying in the United States. The core variables on which fertility attitude information was collected during the survey were: (1) attitude towards the present population of Ni…
Three objectives were identified to explore the relationships between migration and fertility. First, to examine migrant-native fertility differentials within the context of traditional assimilation and social mobility models. Second, to explore the relationship between relative…
This study investigates the feasibility of reducing the dependance of Saudi Arabia on foreign manpower. The investigation seeks to determine the conditions under which the number of foreign workers is reduced without upsetting the development process, i.e., by replacing them wit…
This study identified the role of ethnicity of public university students in Jakarta, Indonesia, in their behavior as population socialization agents. For this purpose, three analyses were carried out. The first analysis dealt with the relationships between ethnicity of students…
This dissertation tests the predictive value that a model including value of children and cost of contraception variables has upon family planning practice and reproductive ideals. The value of children variables includes an index of the perceived economic value of children and …
Risks of death below age 5 years vary widely across human populations. This thesis investigates some environmental factors of--and sex differences in--the age pattern of mortality in infancy and childhood and analyzes the impact of this age pattern on Brass multipliers. The firs…
This dissertation is a case study of the functioning of the urban labor market in Khartoum, Sudan, one of the least economically developed countries in the world. The thesis explores the determinants of labor earners, focusing on a number of controversial labor market issues, an…
Using the Malaysian Family Life Survey, collected under the auspices of the Rand Corporation in 1976-77, the effect of women's relative economic contribution to the household on fertility decision-making was analyzed. The underlying economic model assumed separate utility for hu…
This dissertation examines the geographical mobility and occupational attainment of workers in Semarang, Indonesia in the light of three points at issue between modernization and dual labor market theorists. First, modernization theorists contend that development occurs in both …