Effects of Socio-Demographic Variables on Birth Intervals in Ghana

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ID7841960
AuthorsYaw Oheneba-Sakyi (State University of New York), T B Heaton (0000-0001-7729-1641, Brigham Young University)
Year1993
Volume24
Issue1
Pages113-135
Publication date1993-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/jcfs.24.1.113
OpenAlexW2289808323
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited7

Using data from the Ghana Fertility Survey (GFS) of 1979-80, this study examined the effects of socio-demographic variables on birth intervals in Ghana. The most important factors associated with longer birth intervals are infant/child mortality, formal education, involvement in professional occupation, being non-Catholic, non-Moslem, being Akan or Mole-Dagbani, involvement in polygyny and residence in the Greater Accra region. However, the evidence does not show a consistent pattern of delayed births in most recent cohorts when the other background factors are taken into account. Overall, the impact of most of our variables on birth spacing is small. Thus, in spite of what appears to be modest attempts by subgroups of women to change their childbearing practices, the evidence shows that there has been no sustained decline in fertility in Ghana

Birth rate · Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Fertility · Geography · Infant mortality · Polygyny · Population · Residence · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Global Maternal and Child Health

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