SOCIO-ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF FERTILITY: AN IMPLICATION FOR SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES
DOĞURGANLIĞIN SOSYO-EKONOMİK BELİRLEYİCİLERİ: SAHRA ALTI AFRİKA ÜLKELERİ İÇİN BİR UYGULAMA

Author : Cemil Serhat AKIN -- Cengiz AYTUN - Başak Gül AKTAKAS
Number of pages : 109-122

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate socio-economics determiners of the fertility in empirical sense. In this frame, income level, primary scholl enrollment of female, female labor force participation, urbanization and life expectancy of female which are thought to affect the Sub-Saharan African countries fertility rate, were all questioned by panel data analysis method. In the scope of this study, the data of 37 Sub-Sahara countries were contributed to the analysis for the period of 1991 to 2011. As to the results of the analysis it was found that negative relationship between the income level, female labor force participation, urbanization and fertility rate, besides positive relationship was found between life expectancy of female, primary scholl enrolment of female and fertility

Keywords

Fertility, Primary Scholl Enrollment of Female, Female Labor Force Participation, Urbanization, Life

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