Premarital fertility in Namibia: Trends, factors and consequences

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 145-167

  Garenne, Michel ^a   Zwang, Julien ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CONTRACEPTION; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LIFE TABLE; LINGUISTICS; MARRIAGE; MASS MEDIUM; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NAMIBIA; NORMAL HUMAN; POLITICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREMARITAL FERTILITY; RACE; RELIGION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREND STUDY; URBANIZATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; ILLEGITIMACY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIRTH RATE; CONTRACEPTION; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; ILLEGITIMACY; INTERVIEWS; LIFE TABLES; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NAMIBIA; PREGNANCY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646456365     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: 14697599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932005007261     Document Type: Article

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