Reproductive behaviour in Pakistan: insights from the population, labour force, and migration survey 1979-80

Sathar, Zeba A. and Mohammad, Irfan (1983): Reproductive behaviour in Pakistan: insights from the population, labour force, and migration survey 1979-80. Published in: The Pakistan Development Review , Vol. Vol. X, No. 2 & 3 (Summer-Autumn 1984) (1984): pp. 207-223.

Abstract

This paper is in two parts. Part I is essentially a comparison with the results of the Pakistan Fertility Survey(1970-75) and basically a few themes have been thrown up. One is whether the 12-percent decline in fertility claimed by the PFS can be substantiated. The second presents multivariate analysis and coefficients of age at marriage, birth intervals and length of breast-feeding, and infant mortality. So Part I is basically a description of how those results can be substantiated or refuted or made inconsistent with this four-in-one venture of Migration, Fertility and so forth. Part II goes into statistics and details of a particular model to estimate the determinants of the children ever born.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Pakistan; Fertility; Survey; Multivariate Analysis; Model
• Subjects: A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C4 - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics

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