Fertility exposure analysis was developed recently by Hobcraft and Little in order to evaluate
the relative importance of the various proximate determinants upon levels of current fertility …

Several recent papers have dealt with the problem of assessing the impact of the proximate
determinants on fertility. All these approaches rely on combining a series of separately …

Some regression models are used to test the hypothesis that changes in fertility rates have
been caused by changes in socioeconomic conditions. The model is applied to four groups …

Despite major deficiencies in vital registration systems, there is now substantial
documentation of significant fertility declines, in many developing countries. Indirect …

Event history analysis seems ideally suited for the analysis of World Fertility Survey (WFS)
data, which consists of full birth histories and related information. However, it has not been …

The problem investigated is the adequacy of birth-history analysis as a method for
estimating fertility change. The analysis demonstrates that inaccurate reporting of the dates …

As governments have become more active in population policy, the demand for accurate
knowledge concerning the determinants of fertility and of other demographic events has …

This paper has three major objectives. The first is to demonstrate that a sustained fertility
transition has begun in Nigeria. The second is to identify some factors that might have …

A model is proposed for decomposition of changes in total fertility by several of its proximate
determinants. The new method has been derived from previous work in modelling marital …

A total of 62 countries comprising about 40 per cent of the world's population participated in
the World Fertility Survey (WFS). The WFS is thus by far the most ambitious project ever …