This detailed examination of recent trends in fertility and mortality considers the links between those trends and the socioeconomic changes occuring during the same period.
- Population Dynamics of Kenya
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- Executive Summary
- MORTALITY
- FERTILITY
- THE FUTURE
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Demographic and Socioeconomic Background
- SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE
- Data Sources
- Census and Survey Results
- SUMMARY
- 3 Mortality Trends
- CHILD MORTALITY
- Child Mortality Before the Mid-1970s
- Child Mortality After the Mid-1970s
- Differentials in Child Mortality
- The Possible Effects of AIDS on Child Mortality
- ADULT MORTALITY
- SUMMARY
- APPENDIX
- 4 Fertility Trends
- EVIDENCE OF DECLINES IN FERTILITY FROM RECENT SURVEYS
- DIFFERENTIALS IN THE DECLINES IN FERTILITY
- PATTERNS OF FERTILITY DECLINE
- COMPARISON OF THE PATTERN OF FERTILITY DECLINE IN KENYA WITH OTHER POPULATIONS
- DIFFERENTIALS IN THE PATTERNS OF FERTILITY DECLINE
- FERTILITY DECLINES BY DISTRICT
- SUMMARY
- APPENDIX
- 5 Proximate Determinants of Fertility
- FRAMEWORK
- Percentage of Women in Sexual Union
- Contraception
- Postpartum Infecundability
- Pathological or Primary Sterility
- Abortion
- RESULTS
- Marriage
- Contraception
- Postpartum Infecundability
- Primary Sterility
- Summary
- RELATION BETWEEN CHANGES IN PROXIMATE DETERMINANTS AND FERTILITY
- COMPARISONS OF THE PROXIMATE DETERMINANTS OF KENYA WITH OTHER SUB-SAHARAN POPULATIONS
- SUMMARY
- APPENDIX
- COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES TO ESTIMATE THE INDICES OF THE PROXIMATE DETERMINANTS
- 6 Socioeconomic and Program Factors Related to Fertility Change
- ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK
- CHANGES IN REPRODUCTIVE PREFERENCES
- GROWTH OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS
- Transportation and Communication
- Education
- Health
- Family Planning
- Land Policy
- EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES ON FERTILITY
- SUMMARY
- 7 Linkages Between Socioeconomic Factors and Demographic Change
- CHILD MORTALITY AND SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS
- Cross-Sectional Relationships
- Relationships with Trends
- Relationship with Adult Mortality
- FERTILITY AND SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS
- CHILD MORTALITY LINKAGES WITH FERTILITY DECLINES
- MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF CONTRACEPTIVE USE
- SUMMARY
- APPENDIX
- 8 Conclusions
- MORTALITY
- FERTILITY
- THE FUTURE
- RELATIONSHIP TO DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE IN OTHER COUNTRIES
- References