Analyzing birth intervals: Implications for demographic theory and data collection

Autor:	James A. Palmore, Larry L. Bumpass, Ronald R. Rindfuss
Rok vydání:	1987
Předmět:	Micro level education.field_of_study Birth intervals Data collection Empirical research Sociology and Political Science Population Econometrics Developing country Sociology education Individual level Socioeconomic status
Zdroj:	Sociological Forum. 2:811-828
ISSN:	1573-7861 0884-8971
DOI:	10.1007/bf01124385
Popis:	In the last decade, the study of birth intervals has been greatly facilitated by a rapid expansion in data availability and by improvements in analytical techniques. Unfortunately, the results emerging from individual level, empirical studies of birth interval dynamics do not correspond with the predictions of standard demographic theory. This paper reviews a series of individual level studies that find substantial socioeconomic variation in childspacing after controlling statistically for the major intermediate or proximate variables. It then offers possible explanations for the lack of fit between theory and results at the micro level, concluding that the two most likely explanations are poor measurement of the four principal proximate determinants and the exclusion of additional proximate determinants.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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