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Title: | The Population Dynamics of the Tembomvura People of Zambezi Valley, Northern Zimbabwe: Some Methods of Collecting and Analysing Birth History Data |
Author: | Marindo-Ranganai, Ravai |
Year: | 1995 |
Periodical: | Zambezia (ISSN 0379-0622) |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 177-195 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs., ills. |
Geographic terms: | Zimbabwe Southern Africa |
Subjects: | Tembomvura natality Women's Issues Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) Cultural Roles Demographics research demography demographic change Data collecting Tembomvura (African people) |
External link: | https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA03790622_447 |
Abstract: | Local communities, even illiterate ones, can provide quantitative data on the number of their children if methods are used which allow them to express their knowledge. Using data collected during a demographic, sociocultural and health survey carried out from July to November 1992 among the Tembomvura, commonly known in Zimbabwe as the Dema, a small seminomadic population of 780 people who reside in Chapoto Ward, the author examines and discusses how period fertility data were collected through the use of a combination of methods involving group interviews, participatory modelling and diagramming, dramatization, and a demographic questionnaire. The author also discusses how the birth history data were adjusted and analysed to give estimates of current fertility that indicated some recent changes which had affected the population, notably a reduction in the number of births due to drought and food shortage. Bibliogr., notes, sum. |