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Effect of infant mortality on subsequent fertility in pakistan and Sri Lanka

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

K. Vaninadha Rao  and
Roderic Beaujot
K. Vaninadha Rao
Affiliation:
Centrum Voor Sociologie, Vrije Universitiet Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Roderic Beaujot
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Summary

The relation between infant mortality and fertility is studied using data from the 1975 fertility surveys in Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It is found that the unadjusted data support child replacement, but that this is much less the case once controls are introduced for demographic and socioeconomic factors. Replacement is slightly more pronounced when there are fewer surviving male children.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , July 1986 , pp. 297 - 303
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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