Fertility and economic and social development in Turkey
A Cross-Sectional and Time Series Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4267672 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ghazi M Farooq, Baran Tuncer (0000-0002-1344-9160) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 263-276 |
| Publication date | 1974-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00324728.1974.10405179 |
| PMID | 22070206 |
| OpenAlex | W1997196287 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 8 |
The paper explores the impact of modernization on the fertility levels in Turkey, which started deliberate efforts at economic, social, and political transformation in the early 1920s. It is a disaggregative study using 'province' as the unit of observation. A relatively consistent series of data on population and various economic and social variables was available with quinquennial censuses starting with the 1940 Census. The technique of reverse projection is used to estimate provincial crude birth rates. Since 1955 there has been a consistent decline in the fertility level. A chain-relationship model is estimated using both cross-sectional and panel data. A major finding of the study is that in Turkey, continuing modernization and the concomitant spread of female education will result in a continuing decline in the fertility rate. This negative influence, stable and substantial over time, is largely due to factors other than the usual association between education and opportunity cost of female employment, such as changing attitudes and tastes. Also with the spread of economic and social development influencing the society's norm for average age at marriage and the proportion of women married, the marital rate, though not so significant as education, imparts a direct depressing effect on the aggregate period fertility rate at any given time
Birth rate · Census · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Geography · Marital status · Modernization theory · Norm (philosophy) · Panel data · Political science · Population · Research methodology · Sociology · Total fertility rate · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Global Health Care Issues
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| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1981 - 2008 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |