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Role of Socio-Economic Factors in South Korea’s Low Fertility RatePark, Soojin January 2019 (has links)
Thesis advisor: Wen Fan / In recent years, South Korea has come to face a national issue of low fertility. The low fertility rate remains on a declining trajectory, and that South Korea is looking at facing a great population reduction. This thesis aims to explore the reasons behind this phenomenon, through examining the relationships between various socio-economic factors and fertility rate. Data analysis of a preexisting data set was conducted. The results showed that physical health, lifestyle factors, education, and safety of environment demonstrated the strongest relationships with fertility rates, whereas mental health, fear of aging, and perception of healthcare showed weaker associations. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2019. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: Sociology.
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Analysis of fertility dynamics in Nigeria: exploration into fertility preference implementationIbisomi, Latifat Dasola Gbonjubola 05 August 2008 (has links)
While studies have indicated the onset of fertility transition in Nigeria as in most Sub-
Saharan countries, no systematic attempt has been made to identify the factors
responsible for this trend. Existing explanation tends to draw from the demographic
transition theory without exploring the value of other key variables. One of these
variables is the degree of preference implementation. This study explores the role of
fertility preference implementation on the onset of fertility transition in Nigeria. The
study estimated the extent to which couples have been able to implement their fertility
preferences with a view to better understand the factors that are responsible for the
fertility changes in the country.
This study was based on the socio-economic and microeconomic frameworks of
fertility namely: the Bongaarts et al (1984) version and its Stover’s reformulation
(1998) of the proximate determinants of fertility and the Bongaarts (1993) supply-demand
framework for the analysis of the determinants of fertility, respectively. The
proximate determinant of fertility frameworks holds that all demographic, socioeconomic,
cultural, institutional, psychological, health and environmental factors
(background variables) operate through the proximate or intermediate variables to
affect fertility. The Bongaarts (1993) supply-demand framework posits that fertility
(F) as measured by total fertility rate is an outcome of the interaction of supply of
births (natural fertility), demand for births (wanted fertility) and degree of fertility
preference implementation (an index, which measures the extent to which people have
been able to implement their fertility preferences). The degree of preference
implementation is in turn dependent on cost of fertility regulation and that of unwanted childbearing. The husbands’ family planning attitude and desired number of
children were incorporated into the latter framework to recognize and bring out the
crucial roles of the males in eventual fertility outcomes.
The 1990, 1999 and 2003 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) data sets
for men, women and couples were used. The methodology of the three NDHS is not
too different from each other. They are nationally representative cross-sectional
survey of women between the ages of 15 and 49 in 1990, 1999 and 2003 and men
between 15 and 64 in 1999 and 15-59 in the 2003 survey. Twenty-four focus group
discussions were also conducted among the sexes across the country to gain better
insight and understanding into the issues examined. Focus group research is based on
facilitating an organized discussion with a group of individuals selected because they
were believed to be representative of some class. The discussion is used to bring out
insights and understandings in ways, which cannot be captured by questionnaire. The
focus group discussions (FGD) are also national in scope. Participants were drawn
from the Northern, South Eastern and South Western regions of the country.
The study population consisted of 8,781; 8,199 and 7,620 women aged 15-49
interviewed during the 1990, 1999 and 2003 NDHS, respectively. In addition, 2,584
men aged 15-64 and 2,346 men aged 15-59 interviewed during the 1999 and 2003
NDHS, respectively were used. One thousand, one hundred and sixty-eight (1,168)
couples’ records derived from the 2003 NDHS and 1,280 (constructed) couples’
records for 1999 were also used. A total of eighty-nine (89) men and eighty-five (85)
women participated in the twenty-four (24) focus group discussion sessions.
To achieve the research objectives, a wide range of analysis was carried out in the
study. In the estimation of all means and medians, the Kaplan Meier survival analysis
is used. Some other estimations were done using specific formulations developed for
the purpose. Thirty-six binary logistic regression models were also fitted to bring out
spousal influences on each other’s attitude to family planning and desired number of
children. Lastly, the focus group discussion sessions were analysed by themes to give
better understanding into the issues examined. Five hypotheses were tested in the
study.
There was a general decline in the age specific fertility rates (ASFR) between 1990
and 2003 in all the age groups. This is reflected in the total fertility rate (TFR) for the
country as a whole, which declined from 6.32 in 1990 to 5.82 in 2003. The national
average masks large variations in the fertility levels between subgroups in the
country. The women in the North generally have higher number of children than their
Southern counterparts. This is particularly marked in the early childbearing years.
Fertility levels are also higher among rural residents compared to those in the urban
area. Substantial differences equally exist in the fertility levels of women by their
level of education with fertility being negatively associated with level of education. A
comparison of the past and current fertility also confirms that fertility has been on the
decline in the country.
Age at first and last births have been declining and the differentials between the two
show that the number of years spent in childbearing is decreasing. Non-marital birth
was also found to be increasing over time but at a level below six percent and with no
identifiable educational or regional pattern. Teenage motherhood is equally declining
both nationally and regionally and is relatively high among teenagers from the rural
area and those with less than secondary level of education.
The proportion of women that progress from one parity to another decreases as parity
increases and no socially imposed optimum number of children is observed (although
there is a political four-child policy in existence) among the Nigerian women. Apart
from age of mother at the birth of child, which has a positive association with median
length of birth interval and the surviving status of preceding child (which is
understandably shorter if the preceding child is dead), length of birth interval by other
characteristics shows no significant variation across sub groups.
Age at first marriage remained between 16 and 17 over the years. This is lower for
respondents from the rural, the North and for those with less than secondary level of
education. For age at first sexual intercourse, it increased over time in the age groups.
Respondents from the North and rural area however initiated sexual intercourse
earlier and age at first sexual intercourse increases with level of education.
Among the proximate determinant indices, the index of postpartum insusceptibility
has the greatest inhibiting effect, followed by that of marriage/sexually active,
contraception and then sterility. In the Bongaarts model, the indices reduced total
fecundity by 12.46 births in the total sample of married women in 1990; 8.90 births in
1999 and 9.45 births in 2003 while the indices jointly reduced potential fertility by
17.69 births in the total sample of sexually active women in 1990; 16.06 births in
1999 and 16.50 births in 2003 in the Stover’s reformulation.
The number of children desired marginally increased over time. This could have been
affected by the high proportion of non-response especially in the 1990 survey. The
desired number of children is positively related to age and number of surviving
children while it is negatively related to education. Number of children desired is
found to be lower among urban residents and respondents from the Southern part of
the country and highest among currently married women. The focus group discussion
sessions also show that people have been revising the number of children they are
having downward due to ‘supposed’ economic hardship in the country and the need to
give quality education, training and care to the children. However, their desire remain
high.
The extent, to which fertility preference is achieved, is generally high and increasing
over the years in the total sample of married women with some variations in the sub
groups. It is higher in the urban compared to the rural; increases with level of
education, lowest in the North East and highest in the South West. Surprisingly, the
extent to which concordant couples achieve their fertility preferences was lower than
that of discordant couples. The fitted logistic models showed no evidence of the
husbands having an upper hand in the number of children desired by the wives or on
their attitude to family planning and vice versa. While the husbands play greater role
in fertility decision-making in households, who has the upper hand between the
husbands and the wives in actual fertility outcome was not conclusive in this study.
Knowledge about family planning methods and their availability is high. The costs of
fertility regulation in terms of its social, economic and in particular health
components as well as obstacles to the use of fertility regulation methods were
highlighted. The psychological, health, social and more frequently the economic costs
of unwanted childbearing were also brought out. The responses to questions on
pregnancy wantedness was also validated in this study as people generally
acknowledged the circumstance of the birth of additional child(ren) as accidental.
Two of the five hypotheses proposed were confirmed. One, the hypothesis that ‘the
degree of fertility preference implementation is higher in the south than in the North,
higher among urban residents compared to the rural residents and increases as the
level of education increases’ is supported by the results of the study. Two, that ‘the
degree of fertility preference implementation is increasing and playing an increasing (a more positive) role in fertility changes in Nigeria’ is also supported. The study
could not confirm that ‘the indices of marriage/sexual activity, postpartum
insusceptibility and contraception (in that order) have the most inhibiting effect on
fertility in Nigeria.’ The other two hypotheses could not be proven conclusively
either. These were that ‘degree of fertility preference implementation is higher among
couples with similar desired number of children than among discordant couples’ and
‘the Husbands have more influence on their wives’ family planning attitude and
desired number of children than the wives have over their husbands’.
These findings have programme and policy implications. For instance, although the
reduction in the number of years spent in child bearing is welcome as a result of
decline in the number of older women in active childbearing, the increasing entrance
of women under the age of eighteen years is worrisome. This could impact negatively
on school enrolment and retention as well as on the health of the women since it is recognised that women under the age of eighteen years is one of the four groups of
women with higher risk of morbidity and mortality during pregnancy and childbirth.
Despite the pertinent findings of this study, a number of study limitations can be
identified. This include not identifying people who have achieved their desired
fertility and those who have not and conducting in-depth interview with them to gain
greater insight into their fertility decision-making, desire and behaviour. This aspect
requires further detailed investigation.
A number of programme, policy and research recommendations are made based on
the findings of this study.
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Born in the wake of disaster : A quantitative study of the effect on total fertility rates of severe natural disasters between 1994 and 2012 in Indonesian provincesRiese, Hanna, Vitri, Rebecca January 2018 (has links)
Natural disasters have previously been found to have a positive effect on fertility due to incentives to use births to replace children lost and insure against increased risk. Using a simple demand framework for children, this paper contributes to the literature by re-examining this interaction under a new set of methodological conditions through the inclusion of a wider spectrum of cases than often used in previous works. OLS fixed effects regressions are performed using data from Indonesia and no support for the hypothesis is found. The findings are robust and contrast with former research. To provide nuance and insight to the results, the wanted total fertility rate and the prevalence of contraceptive use are utilised as alternative dependent variables.
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The United Nations Fund For Population Activities: Changing The Direction Of The Total Fertility Rate In Developing NationsFazecas, Michaela 01 January 2004 (has links)
This thesis builds on previous United Nations’ research investigating factors affecting the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in six (6) states: Burkina Faso, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, the Philippines, and Uganda. The present research, however, provides a broader assessment of the TFR and the potential causes of its decline by examining countries across nine (9) regions of the world – sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, and the former Soviet Socialist Republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The present analyses are also conducted over time, specifically from 1960 through 2002. Five (5) primary hypotheses regarding factors affecting the Total Fertility Rate are examined using feasible generalized least squares regression analysis. First, foreign debt is hypothesized to have a positive relationship to TFR. That is, holding all else constant, as foreign debt increases, TFR is expected to increase as well. Foreign debt is operationalized first, as total external debt; second, as long-term debt, and third, as total debt service as a percentage of exports of goods and services. Second, foreign aid, the level of socioeconomic development, and the extent of females’ education are all hypothesized to have negative relationships to TFR. That is, all else constant, as foreign aid increases, TFR is expected to decrease. All else constant, as the level of socioeconomic development increases, TFR is also expected to decrease. All else constant, as the extent of females’ education increases, TFR is also expected to decrease. Foreign aid is operationalized as first, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) loans and International Development Agency (IDA) credits; and second, as official development assistance and official aid. The level of socioeconomic development is operationalized as the Gross National Income (GNI) per capita in terms of purchasing power parity. The extent of females’ education is operationalized as first, the adult female literacy rate (ages 15 and above), and second, as the ratio of young literate females to males (ages 15 – 24). Finally, whereas previous scholars have hypothesized that industrialization reduces TFR (the Western European “demographic transition” hypothesis), the present research proposes that this relationship may not hold in developing countries. This possibility is investigated by analyzing the relationships between TFR and first, the value added of agriculture (as a percentage of GDP); second, the value added of industry (also as a percentage of GDP); third, the value added of manufacturing as a percentage of GDP; and fourth, the value added of services as a percentage of GDP. The findings presented here suggest first, that the foreign debt and foreign aid have differing effects on TFR in different regions of the world. Second, the effects of socioeconomic development and females’ education are more consistent (than foreign debt and foreign aid) across the different regions – but intriguing variations still exist. Finally, it appears that, with very few exceptions, the Western European-based demographic transition model does not hold for non-Western and developing areas. Therefore, new, region-specific models of TFR need to be developed – and public policy needs to be based on these more accurate, more context-appropriate models.
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POROVNANIE ÚROVNE PLODNOSTI VO VYBRANÝCH KRAJINÁCH EÚ / Comparison of the level of fertility rate in selected EU countries.Lešníková, Barbora January 2015 (has links)
The objective of this diploma thesis is on one side to analyze the fertility rate in Slovakia, Czech republic and Sweeden and to compare their development after the fall of the communist establishment from 1990 till 2014 and on the other side to categorize these countries to clusters of EU countries based on chosen variables using multidimensional statistical analysis. I consider the second chapter of the thesis, which focuses on analysis of intensity of fertility rate using direct standardization as well as on verification, whether connection between clusters of EU countries and their geographical location exists, to be my personal addition to the addressed issue. Based on my analyses, the conclusion of the thesis is a finding, that countries, which support reduced working hours have a higher total fertility rate. For that reason, if the natality is about to grow, it is a must to concentrate not only on states family politics but mainly to support the ability of young mothers to become part of a regular working process while on their maternity leave.
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台灣生育政策之研究 / The Study of Fertility Policy in Taiwan易雅如, Yi, Ya Ju Unknown Date (has links)
這篇論文的目的在理論的探討及生育政策的轉變的基礎之下,了解文化、社會、經濟和生育之間的關係、台灣政府在生育方面的政策所扮演的角色及這些政策對台灣人口所造成的影響。由法國、德國、英國、美國及日本的經驗,我們可以知道生育政策在人口變遷扮演了一個非重要的角色,而這些成功或失敗的政策可成為政府將來制定相關政策時的參考。 / The purpose of this master thesis “The Study of Fertility Policy in Taiwan” is to examine the relation between culture, society, economy and fertility based upon theories and to introduce the transition of fertility policy, the role of the Taiwan government in influencing and regulating childbearing and assess the demographic impacts of population. Based on the experience of France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States and Japan, fertility policies play an important role in demographic transition and may provide a window into Taiwan’s future development.
This study finds that low fertility is a widespread phenomenon in Taiwan and is expected to continue in the foreseeable future. Government policies, as in the cases of France and The United States, are effective in combating low fertility. France is a pioneer in providing financial rewards and services to families and children while minorities and immigration have contributed to increased fertility rates in United States. Without national subsidies and affordable childcare, Taiwan’s fertility policies have failed to maintain a replacement rate since 1983.
Judging from policies and practices in advanced countries, Taiwan’s governments should foster a supportive working environment for women and families when they are having or raising children. Specifically, whether Taiwan’s birth rate can be pushed up will depend on measures that offer flexible work schedules, better subsidies for maternity leave, and affordable, high-quality day-care services for career women. Meanwhile, the government should also modulate the education system and redistribute education resources, re-evaluate the relationship between population and sustainable development, better utilize the ageing labor force and strengthen lifelong-learning for older workers.
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Land-use change and rural development in Indonesia: Economic, institutional and demographic aspects of deforestation and oil palm expansionKubitza, Christoph Alexander 02 May 2018 (has links)
No description available.
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Bezdětnost a její aspekty ve vybraných zemích Evropy / Childlessness and its aspects in selected European countriesŽemberová, Karolína January 2014 (has links)
This thesis addresses childlessness and its aspects in selected European countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Estonia, the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway. The aim of this work is to discover whether there are differences between capitalist and post-socialist countries when it comes to the development of childlessness and fertility. The tools are: the analysis of fertility, the average age of mothers at childbirth and analysis of childlessness using both transversal and longitudinal indicators. The indicators used in the analysis were of the first and second category. Another aim of this thesis is to find out whether there are differences between the attitudes, opinions and values when it comes to approach to the family, the division of gender roles and children between childless respondents and respondents with children. The differentiation between sex and age groups through the use of three matrices with questions from three surveys (European Values Study, Eurobarometer and ISSP) are also investigated. The factor analysis and the method of principal components are used to reduce the number of variables. The results of the factor analysis are indexed and the indexes are then used to reveal how the differences manifest themselves in the monitored groups of respondents. The main result of...
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台灣與世界各國生育率的比較 / A Study of Fertility Comparison of Taiwan to Other Countries朱伯長, Chu, Bo-Chang Unknown Date (has links)
台灣地區生育率逐年下降,從1985年起總生育率即低於替代水準2.1;近幾年更快速下降,2005年降至空前的1.12,僅有1960年的1/6。為瞭解台灣地區生育率的未來趨勢,本文研究婦女生育年齡、勞動參與率、教育程度及胎次生育率,與世界各國比較,以分析生育率的變化。我們發現近年台灣、日本及法國各年齡組對生育率的貢獻幾乎相同,但法國的總生育率卻有2的水準。比較台灣地區大專以上及高中以下教育程度的婦女,兩者的生育情況在早期是有所差別的,但近年兩者的生育行為非常接近;大學以上及高中以下的婦女生育率均同時降低,生育率的下降似乎和婦女教育程度關係不大。除了以年齡別的角度進行分析,本文也在胎次別生育率的研究上探討及驗證過去的模型與理論,提出模型以修正Feeney的胎次進級模型,從台灣地區資料的計算結果來比較,兩者相差不大,建議在資料允許的情況下可以使用我們提出的計算方法。 / The fertility rates in Taiwan decline rapidly. The total fertility rate has been lower than the replacement level 2.1 since 1985 and it reached to 1.12, the historical low in 2005, only 1/6 of which in 1960. In order to explore the fertility trend in Taiwan, several variables were used to compare with countries in the world, including women fertility rate by age groups, female labor force participation rate, fertility of women with different educational attainments and fertility rate by birth order. We found that Taiwan, Japan and France share a similar fertility pattern, unlike in the U.S., while the young female groups still have significant contribution on fertility.
For the variable of highest education attained, the group of senior high school and below have higher fertility before 1970’s comparing to that of education with college and higher. However, the gap narrowed down in recent years. Also, for the fertility rates by birth order, we proposed a new model estimation for the parity progression model. We found that the results of proposed method are almost identical to those of the original method, but the computation is much easier.
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Mimomanželská a manželská plodnost v České republice a mezinárodní srovnání. Trendy, faktory a postoje / Nonmarital and marital fertility in the Czech Republic and from international perspective. Trends, patterns and attitudesSrnová, Zdeňka January 2014 (has links)
Nonmarital and marital fertility in the Czech Republic and from international perspective. Trends, patterns and attitudes. Abstract The aim of this master thesis is to describe the development trends of marital and nonmarital fertility in the Czech Republic and to analyze selected indicators of fertility. As tools are used to certain methods of demographic analysis. The first part addressis the basic concepts related to the issue of marital and nonmarital fertility, data sources and a description of the historical development of nonmartial fertility. The analytical part include basic analysis of fertility by age, marital status, education, birth order and the decomposition of the total fertility rate and proportion of childern born outsider marriage in the Czech Republic and Austria too. Keywords: marital fertility, nonmarital fertility, decomposition, total fertility rate, value orientation
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