Add to ORKGThe paper starts with a discussion of the concepts of household and family in historical and contemporary populations and summarizes the debate about size of households. A study of the average size of households and compounds recorded by censuses and surveys in tropical Africa is done followed by a discussion of the various definitions of households. Finally an illustration is given using data collected on the Serer, an ethnic group in Senegal
Household definitions used in multi-topic household surveys vary between surveys but have potentiall...
With the advent of modernization traditional African family patterns are slowly but progressively be...
Paper prepared for the Sixth Annual Congress of the Association for Sociology in Southern Africa (30...
The paper starts with a discussion of the concepts of household and family in historical and contemp...
This study uses data from recent household surveys in 43 developing countries to describe the main d...
African Studies Center Working Paper No. 28While explaining proposed studies of aspects of "househol...
Households can be taken for granted in the West because the nuclear family system with its bilateral...
Recent censuses and demographic surveillance systems have collected a vast amount of information on ...
Margo Russell suggested that the “household has become dangerously reified” (1993: 755). She had a p...
PhotocopyIDRC personnel. Paper on research problems related to new household studies area - includes...
The paper examined the relationship between Household size and socioeconomic variables in Ika North-...
African poverty statistics depend on household-level measurements from survey data, making the defin...
Are ‘statistical households’, as defined in national censuses, able to describe the family environme...
Since the 1950s, the UN Statistical Division has encouraged nations to standardize the definitions u...
Recent demographic evidence for sub-Saharan Africa shows that the absence of a demand for small fami...
Household definitions used in multi-topic household surveys vary between surveys but have potentiall...
With the advent of modernization traditional African family patterns are slowly but progressively be...
Paper prepared for the Sixth Annual Congress of the Association for Sociology in Southern Africa (30...
The paper starts with a discussion of the concepts of household and family in historical and contemp...
This study uses data from recent household surveys in 43 developing countries to describe the main d...
African Studies Center Working Paper No. 28While explaining proposed studies of aspects of "househol...
Households can be taken for granted in the West because the nuclear family system with its bilateral...
Recent censuses and demographic surveillance systems have collected a vast amount of information on ...
Margo Russell suggested that the “household has become dangerously reified” (1993: 755). She had a p...
PhotocopyIDRC personnel. Paper on research problems related to new household studies area - includes...
The paper examined the relationship between Household size and socioeconomic variables in Ika North-...
African poverty statistics depend on household-level measurements from survey data, making the defin...
Are ‘statistical households’, as defined in national censuses, able to describe the family environme...
Since the 1950s, the UN Statistical Division has encouraged nations to standardize the definitions u...
Recent demographic evidence for sub-Saharan Africa shows that the absence of a demand for small fami...
Household definitions used in multi-topic household surveys vary between surveys but have potentiall...
With the advent of modernization traditional African family patterns are slowly but progressively be...
Paper prepared for the Sixth Annual Congress of the Association for Sociology in Southern Africa (30...