African Demography Working Paper Series

The African Demography Working Paper Series was published by the Population Studies Center (PSC) at the University of Pennsylvania between 1980-1989. In total there were 18 papers published in this series. The papers housed in this collection function as an archive of the work done by researchers affiliated with the PSC at the time of publication that were involved in research related to African Demography.

Papers from 1989

Regional marriage patterns and trends in Northern Sudan, Abdelrahman Ibrahim Abdelrahman

Postpartum sexual abstinence in tropical Africa, Etienne van de Walle and Francine van de Walle

Papers from 1988

Marriage patterns in Ankole, South-Western Uganda, James P. M. Ntozi and John B. Kabera

Papers from 1987

Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria, Ismaila Lawal Sulaiman

Papers from 1986

Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa, Etienne van de Walle and John Kekovole

Attitudes of women and men towards contraception in Bobo-Dioulasso, Francine van de Walle and Baba Traore

Papers from 1984

Prevalence and determinants of child fosterage in West Africa: relevance to demography, Uche C. Isiugo-Abanihe

The level and age pattern of mortality in Bandafassi (Eastern Senegal): results from a small-scale and intensive multi-round survey, Gilles Pison and Andre Langaney

The relationship between the level of household sanitation and child mortality: an examination of Ghanaian data, P. Wolanya Stephens

Papers from 1981

The next child: spacing strategy in Yorubaland (with translations from taped interviews), Lawrence A. Adeokun

Child mortality differentials in Sudan, Adbul-Aziz Farah and Samuel Preston

Size of households in tropical Africa, Michel Garenne

The age pattern of infant and child mortality in Ngayokheme (rural West Africa), Michel Garenne

Mechanisms affecting the link between nuptiality and fertility: Tanzania, 1973, Emmanuel K. Sekatawa

Papers from 1980

Response variability in African demographic survey data : a case study of a Nigerian village, Emmanuel Kenneth Andoh

Modernization and the fertility transition, Egypt, 1975, Mahmoud S. Abdou Issa

Patterns of low-income settlement and mobility in Nairobi, Kenya, J. W. Muwonge

The study of mortality in the African context, Etienne van de Walle and Douglas Heisler