Impacts of Some Socio-Demographic Characteristics on Fertility In Urban Addis Ababa OlS and Tobit Analysisj
| dc.contributor.advisor | Wencheko, Eshetu(Professer) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dejene, Negussie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-27T08:37:28Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-09T14:30:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-06-27T08:37:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-09T14:30:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Individual household fertility has been modeled in various ways in the literature. In many empirical studies of fertility, the number of children ever born is modeled as a function of social, economical and demographic variables such as wife's education, husband's education, age atfirst marriage, child mortality ... etc. and the method most commonly used is regression with OLS method of estimation. There are also other studies that apply Maximum Likelihood Tobit Model. In our case, i. e. for the analysis on fertility data of urban Addis Ababa both models are adopted and may contribute to this body of research. The results of the analysis evidenced that: i) The three demographic variables - age at first marriage, desired number of children and child mortality gave the expected results. That is, age at first marriage has a negative but insignificant effect, while child mortality and desired number of children have marked highly significant positive effect on fertility. ii) Virtually, consistent negative relationship was found between wife's education and fertility. iii) Wife's work status and husband education have shown no consistent and insignificant relationship with fertility. Finally, based on the findings, it is suggested that policies aimed at increasing women education, reducing child mortality and limiting desired number offamily size are useful for decreasing fertility . | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://10.90.10.223:4000/handle/123456789/4031 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Abeba university | en_US |
| dc.subject | Some Socio-Demographic | en_US |
| dc.title | Impacts of Some Socio-Demographic Characteristics on Fertility In Urban Addis Ababa OlS and Tobit Analysisj | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |