Nicholas W Townsend
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 189040 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nicholas W Townsend |
| PRENOMES | Nicholas W |
| SOBRENOME | Townsend |
| ASSINATURA | TOWNSEND N W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | John Brown University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 95 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Absent Breadwinners
The sites for earning a living and for maintaining a family, of production and reproduction, remain geographically separated for many South Africans. Yet the common assumption that only fathers who live with their children provide support for them, substantially underestimates fathers' financial contributions to their children. In this article we examine the association between children's connections to their fathers and paternal support. Using d…
The implications of long term community involvement for the production and circulation of population knowledge
Demographic surveillance systems (DSS) depend on community acceptance and involvement to produce high quality longitudinal data. Ensuring community support also exposes power relations usually concealed in the research process. We discuss the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System in South Africa to argue that: 1) long-term presence and community involvement contribute to high response rates and data quality, 2) to maintain communit…
The Package Deal
Children's residence patterns and educational attainment in rural South Africa, 1997
Using data collected by the Agincourt Health and Population Programme in a rural sub-district of South Africa's Northern Province, this paper describes the residential arrangements of a population in rural South Africa, and analyses the impact of these arrangements on children's educational attainment. Children with co-resident parents generally have higher levels of schooling than those who have one or no co-resident parents. However, having a f…
Housing the Good Life
The Continuing Demographic Transition
The Continuing Demographic Transition. Gavin W. Jones. Robert M. Douglas. John C. Caldwell. and Rennie D'Souza. eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 454 pp
Fatherhoods and Fieldwork
Men, migration, and households in Botswana
Survey results indicate a very high proportion of ‘female‐headed households’ in Botswana. Field research in a village in Botswana, however, reveals that the residential household is an inadequate, and misleading, unit of analysis. Domestic groups are not necessarily co‐resident, and domestic arrangements are characterised by fluidity and adaptability. In particular, limiting investigation to the residential household conceals a great deal of men'…
Kinship, courtship, and child maintenance law in Botswana
Age estimation from the number of teeth erupted in young children
The reporting of children’s ages by parents is surprisingly inaccurate in many innumerate societies, but accurate knowledge of age is important for estimating recent changes in demographic rates. The timing of the eruption of children’s teeth is largely independent of environmental influences and can provide a relatively accurate and unbiased estimate of a child’s age. We have collected published data from 42 studies of children’s dentition and h…
Absent Breadwinners
The sites for earning a living and for maintaining a family, of production and reproduction, remain geographically separated for many South Africans. Yet the common assumption that only fathers who live with their children provide support for them, substantially underestimates fathers' financial contributions to their children. In this article we examine the association between children's connections to their fathers and paternal support. Using d…
Children's residence patterns and educational attainment in rural South Africa, 1997
Using data collected by the Agincourt Health and Population Programme in a rural sub-district of South Africa's Northern Province, this paper describes the residential arrangements of a population in rural South Africa, and analyses the impact of these arrangements on children's educational attainment. Children with co-resident parents generally have higher levels of schooling than those who have one or no co-resident parents. However, having a f…
Men, migration, and households in Botswana
Survey results indicate a very high proportion of ‘female‐headed households’ in Botswana. Field research in a village in Botswana, however, reveals that the residential household is an inadequate, and misleading, unit of analysis. Domestic groups are not necessarily co‐resident, and domestic arrangements are characterised by fluidity and adaptability. In particular, limiting investigation to the residential household conceals a great deal of men'…
Kinship, courtship, and child maintenance law in Botswana
Age estimation from the number of teeth erupted in young children
The reporting of children’s ages by parents is surprisingly inaccurate in many innumerate societies, but accurate knowledge of age is important for estimating recent changes in demographic rates. The timing of the eruption of children’s teeth is largely independent of environmental influences and can provide a relatively accurate and unbiased estimate of a child’s age. We have collected published data from 42 studies of children’s dentition and h…
The implications of long term community involvement for the production and circulation of population knowledge
Demographic surveillance systems (DSS) depend on community acceptance and involvement to produce high quality longitudinal data. Ensuring community support also exposes power relations usually concealed in the research process. We discuss the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System in South Africa to argue that: 1) long-term presence and community involvement contribute to high response rates and data quality, 2) to maintain communit…
Fatherhoods and Fieldwork
Age estimation from the number of teeth erupted in young children
The reporting of children’s ages by parents is surprisingly inaccurate in many innumerate societies, but accurate knowledge of age is important for estimating recent changes in demographic rates. The timing of the eruption of children’s teeth is largely independent of environmental influences and can provide a relatively accurate and unbiased estimate of a child’s age. We have collected published data from 42 studies of children’s dentition and h…
Kinship, courtship, and child maintenance law in Botswana
Men, migration, and households in Botswana
Survey results indicate a very high proportion of ‘female‐headed households’ in Botswana. Field research in a village in Botswana, however, reveals that the residential household is an inadequate, and misleading, unit of analysis. Domestic groups are not necessarily co‐resident, and domestic arrangements are characterised by fluidity and adaptability. In particular, limiting investigation to the residential household conceals a great deal of men'…
Housing the Good Life
The Continuing Demographic Transition
The Continuing Demographic Transition. Gavin W. Jones. Robert M. Douglas. John C. Caldwell. and Rennie D'Souza. eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 454 pp
Fatherhoods and Fieldwork
Children's residence patterns and educational attainment in rural South Africa, 1997
Using data collected by the Agincourt Health and Population Programme in a rural sub-district of South Africa's Northern Province, this paper describes the residential arrangements of a population in rural South Africa, and analyses the impact of these arrangements on children's educational attainment. Children with co-resident parents generally have higher levels of schooling than those who have one or no co-resident parents. However, having a f…
The Package Deal
The implications of long term community involvement for the production and circulation of population knowledge
Demographic surveillance systems (DSS) depend on community acceptance and involvement to produce high quality longitudinal data. Ensuring community support also exposes power relations usually concealed in the research process. We discuss the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System in South Africa to argue that: 1) long-term presence and community involvement contribute to high response rates and data quality, 2) to maintain communit…
Absent Breadwinners
The sites for earning a living and for maintaining a family, of production and reproduction, remain geographically separated for many South Africans. Yet the common assumption that only fathers who live with their children provide support for them, substantially underestimates fathers' financial contributions to their children. In this article we examine the association between children's connections to their fathers and paternal support. Using d…
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