Fertility, union status and partners in the WFS Guyana and Jamaica Surveys, 1975-1976 |
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Authors: | Lightbourne R E Singh S |
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Institution: | a World Fertility Survey, International Statistical Institute , 35-37 Grosvenor Gardens , London , SW1M 0BS. |
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Abstract: | Abstract In this paper differences in the level of fertility are examined according to women's union status and their number mf partners. A number of approaches are used to analyse these relationships: differentials by current union status, the pattern of union history, and a measure of the sum synthetic composed of periods spent in each type of union, are discussed. The trend in these differentials is also analysed; using earlier surveys and census data forcomparison, we find that union status differentials have changed noticeably since the 1950s. Fertility differentials by number of partners (or the second measure proposed - number of dissolutioom) are also analysed. The data suggest that the long-existing interrelationship between union history and number of partners has now resulted in changing union status differentials within the new context of increasing use of contraception. |
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