Levels and Patterns of Male fertility in sub-Saharan Africa. What can we learn from the Demographic and Health Surveys ?
(2013) Population Association of America — Location: New Orleans (11.April.2013)
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- The objective of this paper is to evaluate to what extent - and with which methods - the DHS data in sub-Saharan Africa can be used to measure levels and patterns of male fertility. Three methods (two indirect methods and one direct method) that can be used to compute recent age specific fertility rates from DHS data are compared. Comparisons show the own children method is the most promising approach with existing data. We show that the male TFR and mean age at fatherhood vary widely in Sub-saharan Africa. Four types of patterns of male fertility are found.
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Schoumaker, B. (2013). Levels and Patterns of Male fertility in sub-Saharan Africa. What can we learn from the Demographic and Health Surveys ? Population Association of America, New Orleans. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/273949