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Title:Education and fertility among cameroonian working women
Author:Koenig, D.B.ISNI
Book title:Women, education, and modernization of the family in West Africa
Year:1981
Pages:134-153
Language:English
Geographic term:Cameroon
Subjects:women workers
education
fertility
Abstract:Writers on fertility have stressed the association between higher levels of education and the desire of families to have fewer children. Empirical studies in turn have documented an inverse relationship between fertility and education in many areas, including West Africa. Yet the data which are presented here on working women in Cameroon show the opposite relationship. Women with higher levels of education have on the average more living children than those with no education. It is suggested that this is not simply an aberrant case. A consideration of the causes of this pattern will lead to a specific discussion of the means by which education influences fertility, thus aiding an understanding both of those situations where education is associated with lower fertility and those cases where it is associated with higher fertility. Bibliogr., notes.
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