Fertility transition in Bangladesh: Trends and determinants / United Nations.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United Nations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population and Demography.

Bangladesh.

Local Subjects:

Population and Demography.

Bangladesh.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (20 pages)

Contained In:

Asia-Pacific Population Journal Vol. 2, no. 4, p. 53-72 2:4<53 15644278

Place of Publication:

New York : United Nations, 1987.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In the late 1970s there was a consensus that pronounced fertility declines had occurred in many developing countries (Dyson and Murphy, 1985; Knodel, 1984). Bangladesh however was an exception and, even if some changes in fertility did take place, any analysis of those changes would be severely hampered owing to the poor quality and unreliability of its data. Nonetheless, because of recent improvements in data quality, particularly since the middle of the last decade, it is possible to examine trends in fertility patterns for the period 1975 -1985. However, some data from earlier periods are also used for drawing conclusions. Note should be taken of the fact that these data have specific methodological problems that raise questions about their comparability over time and cross-sectionally. Therefore, caution must be exercised in interpreting the estimates.

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