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Title:Rural fertility in Imo State of Nigeria
Author:Ukaegbu, A.O.
Year:1979
Periodical:Ikenga: Journal of African Studies
Volume:4
Issue:1
Pages:10-26
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:natality
fertility
Abstract:In the absence of a useful national population census, the demographic characteristics of the south-western sector of Nigeria are being accumulated by means of social surveys, thanks to the activities of several research institutions. Social and economic planners can thus draw from the reservoir of information of these bodies. With respect to the eastern sector of the country however, the picture is different. Until now very little or nothing has been done to obtain plausible demographic estimates of the region. Ita I. Ekanem, in 'Fertility in Eastern Nigeria' (Lome, 1973) has attempted to derive certain indices from a KAP survey of parts of eastern Nigeria. Hitherto the scanty ideas available about the demographic characteristics of the region had depended upon the incomplete and controversial population censuses of 1952/53 and 1963 respectively. Purpose of this paper is to add to the scanty data in eastern Nigeria by the application of a single retrospective demongraphic inquiry. The results of the analysis presented provide a more valid basis for intelligent guessing in the process of socio-economic planning in the eastern States, especially in the Imo State which is the survey state, than the above census data. App., fig., notes, tab.
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