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Title: Fertility and Fecundity Trends in Africa across Three Decades: Evidence from IPUMS-DHS
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Publication Year: 2017
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Abstract: Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) have collected data on health issues for women of childbearing age since the mid-1980s, with particular emphasis on factors affecting reproduction. Despite the richness, geographic range, and temporal scope of DHS data, changes over time and country/samplespecific variations in questions and codes have discouraged comparative analyses and sometimes produced inadvertent errors. To facilitate analyses of DHS data across time and space, researchers at the Minnesota Population Center have created IPUMS-DHS (www.idhsdata.org). Modeled on IPUMS census data integration, IPUMS-DHS imposes consistent variable names and codes, supplies extensive online documentation, and freely disseminates customized multi-sample datasets over the Internet. At this writing, IPUMS-DHS includes data on women of childbearing age and their young children and births for India and many African countries. Our poster illustrates the potential for comparative research using IPUMS-DHS by presenting trends in fertility and fecundity for multiple African countries, from their earliest to their most recent DHS samples. Fertility is measured by the national total fertility rate; fecundity is here defined as the percent of women of childbearing age who are not pregnant, breastfeeding, sterile, or menopausal, using DHS variable V623.
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Authors: Boyle, Elizabeth Heger; Huang, Kevin; King, Miriam L.
Conference Name: PAA 2017 Annual Meeting
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Data Collections: IPUMS Global Health - DHS
Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Reproductive and Sexual Health
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