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...Duncan Thomas; Ityai Muvandi Abstract Botswana and Zimbabwe have been acclaimed as being on the vanguard of the demographic transition in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper examines the comparability of the CPS and the DHS data for each country and finds that part of the observed decline in aggregate...

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... Mortality in the Demographic and Health Surveys An Assessment of DHS-I Data Quality (pp. 115 – 40 ). Columbia : Institute for Resource Development . Demography, Vol. 31, No.2, May 1994 The Demographic Transition in Southern Africa: Reviewing the Evidence from Botswana and Zimbabwe* Duncan Thomas...

...Kofi D. Benefo Abstract The question of how postpartum sexual abstinence responds to social change in West Africa is important because declines in the practice could increase fertility levels and worsen child and maternal health. This study uses data from the late 1970s in Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana...

...Kathleen Ford; Victoria Hosegood Abstract This paper examines the effect of parental death on the mobility of 39,163 children aged 0–17 in rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, in 2000 and 2001. Parental mortality from all causes prior to and during follow-up increased the risk of a child moving...

...Anne Case; Christina Paxson; Joseph Ableidinger Abstract We examine the impact of orphanhood on children’s school enrollment in 10 sub-Saharan African countries. Although poorer children in Africa are less likely to attend school, the lower enrollment of orphans is not accounted for solely...

... (Uganda) . Bledsoe C. ( 1990 ). The Politics of AIDS, Condoms, and Heterosexual Relations in Africa: Recent Evidence From the Local Print Media . In W.P. Handwerker (Ed.), Births and Power: Social Change and the Politics of Reproduction (pp. 197 – 223 ). Boulder : Westview Press...

...Ian M. Timæus; Momodou Jasseh Abstract This article reports levels, trends, and age patterns of adult mortality in 23 sub-Saharan Africa countries, based on the sibling histories and orphanhood data collected by the countries’ Demographic and Health Surveys. Adult mortality has risen sharply since...

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...Øystein Kravdal Abstract Using data from Demographic and Health Surveys for 22 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, I show that the average educational level in a village or a community of a similar size has a significant depressing effect on a woman’s birth rates, net of urbanization and her own...

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...Antonio Mc Daniel Abstract Several studies have examined the mortality of immigrants from Europe to Africa in the nineteenth century. This paper examines the level of mortality in Liberia of Africans who emigrated there from the United States. A life table is estimated from data collected...

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... in Nigeria towards Family Plan- ning," in The Population of Tropical Africa, pp. 401-9. This chapter describes four sur- veys carried out from the University of Lagos Medical School during 1963--B5, three of which are not really comparable with those described here because the respondents were drawn from...

... that the estimated effects of maternal deaths on children’s outcomes in the Africa Centre DSA reflect the reality for orphans throughout South Africa. The Impact of Parental Death on School Outcomes 401 T Demography, Volume 43-Number 3, August 2006: 401 420 401 THE IMPACT OF PARENTAL DEATH ON SCHOOL OUTCOMES...

... on School Outcomes: Longitudinal Data From South Africa . Demography , 43 , 401 – 20 . 10.1353/dem.2006.0022 Case , A. , Paxson , C. , & Ableidinger , J. ( 2004 ). Orphans in Africa: Parental Death, Poverty, and School Enrollment . Demography , 41 , 483 – 508 . 10.1353/dem...

...Laurie F. Derose; Øystein Kravdal Abstract In many areas throughout sub-Saharan Africa, young adult cohorts are less educated than their predecessors because of declines in school enrollments during the 1980s and 1990s. Because a woman with little education typically becomes a mother earlier...