Orphaned Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Can We Learn from Census Data?
(2014) Continuity and Change in Sub-Saharan African Demography — ISBN: [9780415711944], p. 210-233, accepted/in-press
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- Despite a renewed interest for the situation of orphans, census data on parental survival remain seldom used. Numerous African censuses contain information on parental deaths, and census data have the potential to portray a much more exhaustive picture of orphanhood than sample surveys. The chapter starts with prevalence of orphanhood estimated from a large series of countries. When successive censuses are available, trends are assessed. We also show how census data can be used to work at the district level and identify sub-national regions with high orphan burden. Finally, the chapter focus on the vulnerability of orphans by studying school enrollment, living arrangements and labor participation of orphans.
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Masquelier, B., & Soura, B. A. (2014). Orphaned Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Can We Learn from Census Data? In Clifford O. Odimegwu, John Kekovole (ed.), Continuity and Change in Sub-Saharan African Demography (p. p. 210-233). Routledge. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/212492