| dc.contributor.author | Osiemo, Alfred J.O | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-17T06:24:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-05-17T06:24:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1986 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | This thesis is submitted for the degree of master of science in the institute of population studies and research,University of Nairobi, may, 1986. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/23704 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The objective of this Thesis is two-fold. The first is to
derive new estimates of the levels and differentials of fertility
for Kenya: both at National, Provincial and district levels, through
the application of the Coale-Trussell and the Gompertz relational
models to data drawn f~om the 1969 and 1979 censuses. The second is
to compare the resulting estimates for the districts in order to
detect similarities or differences in total fertility. The synthetic
cohort technique was used to adjust for the fertility fluctuations
between the two censuses, at the National level only.
Educational attainment, Place of residence and Marital status
were the fertility differentials employed in this Thesis. The
secondary education was found to be necessary for the reduction of
fertility in Kenya. However, the difference between the Urban and
the Rural fertility was not significant. It was also found out that
both the non-marital and marital fertilities were significant in
Kenya.
The estimation of fertility differentials for North-Eastern
Province and other nomadic tribes in Kenya, was not done due to the
very high degree of erroneous data collected from these areas.
Finally, settlement schemed districts were found to have high
fertility levels. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.title | Estimation of fertility levels and differentials in Kenya: an application of relational gompertz and coale-trussell models. | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| local.publisher | institute of population studies and research | en |
