Abstract Using longitudinal data collected between 1999 and 2007, for Agincourt Demographic
Surveillance Area, the paper examines the effect of marital status and co-residence on
mortality of women who are aged between 20 and 80. The Cox Proportional Hazard
Model is used to investigate the relationship between mortality and the covariates; marital
status, co-residence, woman’s country of origin and marital duration for married women.
The number of months the husband was resident in the ADSA is used as a proxy for coresidence.
After controlling for women migration, marital status and co-residence were
significant. The divorced/separated and widowed women had a higher probability of
dying compared to the married. In addition, being married to a migrant partner increased
the woman’s probability of dying. Thus the study concludes that marital status and coresidence
affects mortality.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/7313 |
| Date | 22 September 2009 |
| Creators | Shoko, Mercy |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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