Thèse diffusée initialement dans le cadre d'un projet pilote des Presses de l'Université de Montréal/Centre d'édition numérique UdeM (1997-2008) avec l'autorisation de l'auteur.In spite of considerable research on Kenya’s fertility, questions remain. This dissertation examines three of these issues - the national and sub-national trend patterns in the country’s fertility and related proximate determinants, factors in the transitions to second and third conceptions, and the determinants of contraceptive use. Results, presented below, are based upon data which comprised five sample surveys conducted between 1977 and 2003 among women of reproductive age, as well as a community and health facility survey implemented in 1999. First, an exp...
Background Globally, fertility has declined in the last three decades. In sub-Saharan Africa Includi...
This thesis is a study of patterns and differentials in nuptiality and marital fertility in Kenya us...
This paper uses data from the Demographic and Health Surveys to examine the current status of fertil...
The absence of any further fertility decline in Kenya in recent past has alarmed the demographic com...
The absence of any further fertility decline in Kenya in recent past has alarmed the demographic com...
A characteristic of African pre-transitional fertility regimes is large ideal family size. This has ...
This paper uses the 1989 and 1998 KDHS data sets to examine the role of socioeconomic, cultural and ...
There is a strong theoretical and empirical relationship between educational attainment and fertilit...
This paper investigates the relationships between migration and the determinants of contraceptive us...
The objectives of this study are to examine the trends, assess socio-economic differentials, and to ...
The literature on fertility transitions in the sub-Saharan Africa region suggests that an early tran...
Between 1980 and 2000 total fertility in Kenya fell by about 40 per cent, from some eight births per...
The own-children method of fertility estimation tracks temporal changes in fertility patterns. We re...
This study is based on the Kenya Fertility Survey of 1977/78 which was carried out as part of the W...
This paper uses data from the 1989, 1993 and 1998 Kenya Demographic and Health Surveys to examine tr...
Background Globally, fertility has declined in the last three decades. In sub-Saharan Africa Includi...
This thesis is a study of patterns and differentials in nuptiality and marital fertility in Kenya us...
This paper uses data from the Demographic and Health Surveys to examine the current status of fertil...
The absence of any further fertility decline in Kenya in recent past has alarmed the demographic com...
The absence of any further fertility decline in Kenya in recent past has alarmed the demographic com...
A characteristic of African pre-transitional fertility regimes is large ideal family size. This has ...
This paper uses the 1989 and 1998 KDHS data sets to examine the role of socioeconomic, cultural and ...
There is a strong theoretical and empirical relationship between educational attainment and fertilit...
This paper investigates the relationships between migration and the determinants of contraceptive us...
The objectives of this study are to examine the trends, assess socio-economic differentials, and to ...
The literature on fertility transitions in the sub-Saharan Africa region suggests that an early tran...
Between 1980 and 2000 total fertility in Kenya fell by about 40 per cent, from some eight births per...
The own-children method of fertility estimation tracks temporal changes in fertility patterns. We re...
This study is based on the Kenya Fertility Survey of 1977/78 which was carried out as part of the W...
This paper uses data from the 1989, 1993 and 1998 Kenya Demographic and Health Surveys to examine tr...
Background Globally, fertility has declined in the last three decades. In sub-Saharan Africa Includi...
This thesis is a study of patterns and differentials in nuptiality and marital fertility in Kenya us...
This paper uses data from the Demographic and Health Surveys to examine the current status of fertil...