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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 873–898.
Published: 19 May 2020
...David K. Guilkey; Veronica Escamilla; Lisa M. Calhoun; Ilene S. Speizer Abstract This study uses data gathered for an evaluation of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation–funded initiative designed to increase modern contraceptive use in select urban areas of Nigeria. When the initiative...
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Demography (1997) 34 (2): 295–309.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Anastasia J. Gage; A. Elisabeth Sommerfelt; Andrea L. Piani Abstract In this study, we use data from the Demographic and Health Surveys to examine the relationship between household structure and childhood immunization in Niger and Nigeria. We show that household structure is an important...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 685–710.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of being overweight or obese in an LMIC, Nigeria, using data from the 2003, 2008, and 2013 Demographic Health Surveys. In 1976, the Nigerian government abolished primary school fees and increased funding for primary school construction, creating quasi-random variation in access to primary school according...
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1551–1561.
Published: 17 April 2013
...Emily Smith-Greenaway Abstract Mother’s formal schooling—even at the primary level—is associated with lower risk of child mortality, although the reasons why remain unclear. This study examines whether mother’s reading skills help to explain the association in Nigeria. Using data from...
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in Organized Violence and Institutional Child Delivery: Micro-Level Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa, 1989–2014
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Published: 13 June 2018
Fig. 4 Buffer (50 km) around selected DHS clusters in Southwest Nigeria (2008), with violent events six months prior to the survey
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in The Effect of Schooling on Women's Overweight and Obesity: A Natural Experiment in Nigeria
> Demography
Published: 01 April 2021
Fig. 2 Number of new public schools in Nigeria, 1960–2010. Source: Nigerian Primary School Census 2008.
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in The Effect of Schooling on Women's Overweight and Obesity: A Natural Experiment in Nigeria
> Demography
Published: 01 April 2021
Fig. 5 Overweight and obesity by years of schooling in Nigeria, grouped according to approximate levels of attainment. Error bars show 95% confidence intervals for mean proportions. The x -axis categories correspond to years of schooling among respondents: no education (0 years), primary
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Demography (1987) 24 (2): 279–290.
Published: 01 May 1987
...James McCarthy; Gbolahan A. Oni Abstract This paper proposes and carries out a two-stage analysis of the determinants of desired family size, using data gathered from a sample of women in the city of Ilorin, Nigeria. The analysis first focuses on differences between women who report numerical...
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Demography (1984) 21 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 February 1984
...) . Ekanem I. I. ( 1974 ). Influence of Polygamy on Fertility in Eastern Nigeria . In B. Kwaku Adadevoh (Ed.), Sub-Fertility and Infertility in Africa (pp. 56 – 64 ). Ibadan : Caxton Press (West Africa) Ltd . Farooq, G. M. 1980. Household Fertility Decision-Making in Nigeria. Paper...
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Demography (1972) 9 (3): 383–398.
Published: 01 August 1972
... BETWEEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND FERTILITY Ita I. Ekanem Department of Sociology and Demography, University of Ife, IIe-lfe. Nigeria Abstract-The relationship between economic development and fertility has been examined by several scholars. In particular Heer, using data from 41 nations (24 developing...
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Demography (1975) 12 (2): 369–371.
Published: 01 May 1975
... . DEMOGRAPHY@ Volume 12, Number 2 May 1975 FURTHER REPLY TO KHAN Ita I. Ekanem Department of Sociology and Demography, University of Ife, lle-l fe, Nigeria Overall, I feel strongly that Mashal of per capita income data for the entire Khan did not read my article closely be- population, again ignoring my...
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Demography (1991) 28 (2): 249–260.
Published: 01 May 1991
... in the proportion of premarital first births in Benin, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria. The analysis demonstrates that the exceptionally low proportion of premarital first births in Ghana is an artifact of the imputation procedures. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1991 1991...
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Demography (1976) 13 (4): 479–493.
Published: 01 November 1976
... for, and the timing of, the inception of birth control among married women in areas where there is no cultural precedent for birth spacing by traditional means. This study, on the other hand, is based on data drawn from an area sample of 6,606 women, married or single, aged 15–59, in Ibadan, Nigeria, where...
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1521–1549.
Published: 10 July 2013
... with children whose parents were married, children born to never-married single mothers were significantly more likely to die before age 5 in six countries (odds ratios range from 1.36 in Nigeria to 2.61 in Zimbabwe). In addition, up to 50 % of women will become single mothers as a consequence of divorce...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 598–619.
Published: 01 June 1968
... is a little further still from being comparable: T. Daramola and R. D. Wright with G. O. Sofolufe, A. Adeniyi-Jones and H. Elliott, “Survey of Attitudes in Nigeria towards Family Planning,” in The Population of Tropical Africa , pp. 401–9. 2 J. C. Caldwell, “The Demographic Implications of the Extension...
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Demography (1970) 7 (3): 329–339.
Published: 01 August 1970
... in signed to assess the evidence for the production. For the sampIes from Chile, existence of an attitudinal and behav- Nigeria and Israel, a distinction was ioral syndrome characterizing the "mod- made between persons of predominantly ern man" in developing nations. It was rural origin and those...
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 757–772.
Published: 01 November 2004
...: Life Tables for 191 Countries . Geneva : World Health Organization . Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey 1999 . ( 2000 ). Calverton, MD : National Population Commission and ORC/Macro . Notkola V. , Timæus I.M. , & Siiskonen H. ( 2004 ). Impact on Mortality of the AIDS...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1295–1316.
Published: 13 June 2018
...Fig. 4 Buffer (50 km) around selected DHS clusters in Southwest Nigeria (2008), with violent events six months prior to the survey ...
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in Organized Violence and Institutional Child Delivery: Micro-Level Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa, 1989–2014
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Published: 13 June 2018
Fig. 2 Delivery in a medical facility in SSA, share (%) by survey cluster, various years. The sources of panel a are all DHS surveys listed in Table 4 in the appendix, and panel b zooms in on Nigeria
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1955–1975.
Published: 01 October 2021
... 47 448 Lesotho 2014 399 157 609 Liberia 2013 322 126 136 Malawi 2004 520 140 203 Malawi 2010 827 170 362 Mali 2001 399 175 223 Mali 2012 413 198 180 Mozambique 2011 609 142 190 Namibia 2013 547 135 382 Nigeria 2003 360 102 103 Nigeria...
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