| Autor: |
Mary Beth Weinberger, Ann K. Blanc, Cynthia Lloyd |
| Rok vydání: |
1989 |
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| Zdroj: |
International Family Planning Perspectives. 15:4 |
| ISSN: |
0190-3187 |
| Popis: |
New survey data show that there has been a rapid fertility decline in 4 Latin American countries. Furthermore in 3 of the 4 (Colombia the Dominican Republic and Ecuador) the gap in fertility between educated and uneducated women which had been very wide during the 1970s has begun to narrow. However educational differentials in fertility are still substantial particularly in Peru where the educational differential has remained as overall fertility has declined. Women of reproductive age in these 4 countries have completed 6-7 years of schooling on average although the proportion of women with no education or with only a few (1-3) years ranges from 23-31%. As well as having lower fertility and desiring smaller families women with more education generally marry later and are more likely to practice contraception than are less-educated women. In all 4 countries womens educational attainment has been rising rapidly enough that the increase in the proportion of more highly educated women has by itself been an important cause of fertility decline. Improvements in education alone would explain 40-67% of the fertility decline if there had been no change in behavior within the education groups. At the same time fertility declines within education groups have been large and in 3 of the 4 countries have contributed over 1/2 of the observed fertility decline. In addition contraceptive use increased substantially within education categories while desired family size appears to have fallen. There has also been a trend within education groups toward earlier or more universal marriage an unexpected finding. (Authors modified) |
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