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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 (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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View articletitled, Maternal Reading Skills and Child Mortality in <span class="search-highlight">Nigeria</span>: A Reassessment of Why Education Matters
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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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View articletitled, The Effect of Schooling on Women's Overweight and Obesity: A Natural Experiment in <span class="search-highlight">Nigeria</span>
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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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View articletitled, The Examination of Diffusion Effects on Modern Contraceptive Use in <span class="search-highlight">Nigeria</span>
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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
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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
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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 (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 (1972) 9 (3): 383–398.
Published: 01 August 1972
... . Econometrica , 40 , 812 – 817 . 10.2307/1909327 DEMOGRAPHY Volume 9, Number 3 August 1972 A FURTHER NOTE ON THE RELATION BETWEEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND FERTILITY Ita I. Ekanem Department of Sociology and Demography, University of Ife, IIe-lfe. Nigeria Abstract-The relationship between economic...
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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 (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 (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 (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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View articletitled, Organized Violence and Institutional Child Delivery: Micro-Level Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa, 1989–2014
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1955–1975.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Nigeria 2003 360 102 103 Nigeria 2013 889 257 320 Rwanda 2005 456 84 192 Rwanda 2010 984 239 418 Rwanda 2014 Senegal 2005 366 144 163 Senegal 2010 782 269 266 Senegal 2012 Senegal 2014 Sierra Leone 2013 435 128 174 Tanzania, United Republic...
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View articletitled, Husbands' Dominance in Decision-Making About Women's Health: A Spatial Diffusion Perspective in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1513–1542.
Published: 25 August 2015
... came mainly from English-speaking countries—particularly Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, and Nigeria—as well as from Ethiopia. More recently, the number of sending countries has increased, and today no single country dominates (Capps et al. 2012 ). Fig. 2 Percentage of all African-origin migrants who...
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