Fertility, Union Status and Partners in the WFS Guyana and Jamaica Surveys, 1975-1976

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ID4268166
AutoresRobert E Lightbourne (Statistical Research (United States)), Susheela Singh (0000-0001-9108-6206, RTI International)
Año1982
Volumen36
Número2
Páginas201-225
Fecha de publicación1982-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPopulation Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00324728.1982.10409028
PMID22077272
OpenAlexW2076954364
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas8

In this paper differences in the level of fertility are examined according to women's union status and their number mf partners. A number of approaches are used to analyse these relationships: differentials by current union status, the pattern of union history, and a measure of the sum synthetic composed of periods spent in each type of union, are discussed. The trend in these differentials is also analysed; using earlier surveys and census data forcomparison, we find that union status differentials have changed noticeably since the 1950s. Fertility differentials by number of partners (or the second measure proposed - number of dissolutioom) are also analysed. The data suggest that the long-existing interrelationship between union history and number of partners has now resulted in changing union status differentials within the new context of increasing use of contraception

Census · Context (archaeology) · Demographic economics · Economics · Fertility · Geography · Political science · Population · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare