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Effect of women's education on fertility in Rwanda: Evidence from the 2000 RDHS

Faculty of Humanities
School of Social Sciences
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RWEGAL@yahoo.fr / Most studies indicate that women’s education plays a very important role in driving
demographic transition. This study aims at exploring the effect of women’s education on
fertility in Rwanda. The study is based on the analysis of the 2000 Rwanda Demographic and
Health Survey and employs both direct and indirect methods of estimating fertility.
Bongaarts proximate determinants model and such statistical analyses as PATH analysis. The
major finding of the study is that although fertility is still high in Rwanda there is some
evidence of fertility decline and marriage is the most important proximate determinant of
fertility in the country. The study recommends that more studies are needed to find out socioeconomic
variables that affect fertility and contribute to low contraceptive use in the country.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/1699
Date14 November 2006
CreatorsKavatiri, Rwego Albert
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
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