dc.contributor.author | Marguerite, Miheso K | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-09T12:26:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-05-09T12:26:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1995 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/20864 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study was aimed at exploring variations in women's work
patterns and the relationship between women's work and fertility
using data from KDHS 1993. Four occupational groups were
distinguished: Modern (Professional,Clerical); Transitional
(Domestic Household Employee, Service); Mixed (Sales, Skilled and
Unskilled); and Traditional (Agriculture). The majority of the
women worked in traditional sector and the mixed sector.
The relationship between women's' work and fertility concluded
that women in the modern and transitional occupation bore fewer
children on average than the women in the traditional occupation.
The level of fertility in the transitional sector compared very
well with fertility in the modern sector and the level of fertility
in the mixed sector was as high as the fertility in the traditional
sector.
The relationship between women's work and the intermediate
variables (desired family size ,contraceptive use,and
breastfeeding) showed that modern methods of contraception were
widely used by the women who were in modern sector than in any
other sector. However breast feeding was found to be popular among
Kenyan women irrespective of type of occupation. Occupation was
less often significant in explaining variations in family size
desires and total children ever born. The main conclusion was
that the effect on fertility can be explained by type of occupation
not withstanding level of education Although the more
incompatible jobs were and to be those that required longer
periods of training like the modern sector, job types that had
long working hours and where opportunity cost was most effective
as is in the transtion sector were found to have had a negative
effect on fertility. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | The University of Nairobi | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.subject | Fertility differentials | en |
dc.subject | Married Kenyan women | en |
dc.title | Fertility differentials by occupation type among ever married Kenyan women | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
local.publisher | population studies and research Institutet | en |