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Determinants of birth intervals in Sudan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Mona A. Khalifa
Mona A. Khalifa
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, Cairo University, Khartoum Branch, Sudan
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Summary

Using individual birth history data from the Sudan Fertility Survey, 1979, parity-related differences in fertility are demonstrated, as well as differences between socioeconomic groups. Rural women, women with no education and those married to uneducated husbands show rapid parity progression and its cumulative effects on fertility which are consistent over all birth intervals. Urban women, women with some education and those married to educated husbands, however, go rapidly through their second and third birth intervals and then more slowly at higher parities. A limitation of the study was the inability to control fully for the effects of breast-feeding and contraception.

There is evidence for a reduction in high parity births,' starting in the 1970s.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , July 1989 , pp. 301 - 320
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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