| dc.description.abstract | The main objectives of this thesis are three-fold. Firstly,
to study infant and child mortality' rates in Western Province by
region and by the differentials of education, marital status and
residence. Secondly, to show that the expectation of life at
birth in the province is influenced by the level of education,
type of marital status and nature of residence, and finally to
estimate the fertility rates In the province at divisional level
by employing various techniques, viz : Coal e-Trussell, Gompertz
and Coale-Demeny.
The data used in the analysis was drawn from the 1979
national Census.
The thesis has been broken down into five chapters. Chapter
one is the general introduction In which the objectives:
literature review as well as the theoretical framework have been
outlined. The second chapter deals with the infant/child
mortality rates using the Coale-Trussell model.
also constructed for each variable under study.
Life tables are.
It is found
that infant/child mortality rates
neighbourhood is overalry higher
Kakamega and Bungoma, and that
in divisions of Busia and its
than in the other divisions of
the higher the infant/child
mortality rate, the lower the expectation of life. The third
chapter pays particular attention to the estimation of fertility
rates using the Coale-Trussel model. The fertility rate by each
variable is calculated. The fourth chapter is ideally an | en |
