Trends in moslem fertility and the application of the demographic transition model

Nagi, Mostafa H.

doi:10.1080/19485565.1983.9988540

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“…This challenge seems to be greater in Islamic societies, whose cultural foundations encourage procreation, although without any explicit doctrine on contraceptive practices (Sachedina, 1990). Within the Islamic world, fertility has dropped in the Arab countries in the last few decades (Fargues, 1988), although the reduction in fertility rates has not wholly followed the changes registered in the macro-economic indicators (Nagi, 1983). The introduction of family planning §Present address: Department of Biology, Autonoma University, Madrid.…”

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Determinants of contraceptive use in Morocco: stopping behaviour in traditional populations

Varea¹,

Crognier²,

Bley³

et al. 1996

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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The determinants of modern contraceptive use in traditional populations are analysed in married women aged 30-44 living in the province of Marrakech (Morocco). Women who have never used contraception have smaller family sizes than those who do: the number of live children (or live births) is the variable with maximum predictive power on contraceptive use, while child mortality is the main inhibiting factor. The probability of contraceptive use increases with female age at marriage and decreases with the woman's age, indicating a generational change in reproductive behaviour. The socioeconomic variables education, employment and residence, have no significant independent predictive character on contraceptive use, although the interaction between education and residence does. The paper evaluates the hypothesis that traditional populations in the initial phase of their demographic transition resort to modern contraception in order to stop childbearing, when they have reached a desired number of children, rather than to space births or reduce their fertility.

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Determinants of contraceptive use in Morocco: stopping behaviour in traditional populations

Varea¹,

Crognier²,

Bley³

et al. 1996

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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“…Although scholars of Islam hold differing views about whether Islam explicitly encourages people to have large families, many observers agree that institutional pressures related to Islam, such as the Islamic conception of women's roles and its implication for the status of women, exert pro-natalist influences. Moreover, religious authorities strongly oppose abortion and sterilization, although temporary methods of contraception, particularly withdrawal, are not generally opposed (Nagi, 1983;Fagley, 1967:81).…”

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The cultural context of Thailand’s fertility decline

Knodel¹,

Chamratrithirong²,

N³

1986

Asia-Pacific Population Journal

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Thailand is among a growing number of developing countries that are experiencing a sustained decline in fertility from former high and relatively stable levels. In the case of Thailand, the reduction in birth rates has been both rapid and pervasive. During the last two decades, the total fertility rate (TFR) fell from a level of between 6 and 7 births per woman to a level of close to 3 per woman. According to a recent United Nations assessment, Thailand's fertility decline during the last two decades ranks as the third largest, behind only China and the Republic of Korea, among the 15 most populous developing countries of the world (United Nations, 1985).

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“…Like many other Muslim countries, Morocco experienced a high demographic growth in the second part of the 20th century that did not begin to subside until the 1990s [13]. The data collected during the 1960s and 1970s, rank the country among highly fertile populations, with a total fertility rate estimated from the 1982 census at 5.5 (4.3 in the urban component and 6.6 in rural areas [14]) and a natural annual growth rate averaging 2.5% [8,16,17].…”

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Fertility Changes in Rural Moroccan Berbers during the 20th Century

Crognier

Amor

Baali

et al. 2006

Intl Jnl Anthropology

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Morocco's fertility pattern evolved in the 20th century from a traditional model close to 'natural fertility' to a modern pattern incorporating contraception. The very high fertility rate of nearly 7 offspring per woman observed in the 1960s was still at a level of 5.5 offspring per woman in the early 1980s. The total fertility rate subsequently declined to 2.5 by 2003. This decline was apparently, principally, the result of two factors in the urban context: the relative increase in women's age at marriage and the use of contraception to regulate and to close reproduction. This research studied a group of Berber agriculturists in the region of Marrakech to better understand the extension and modalities of fertility changes in a rural environment. Though delayed, the changes observed in rural Berbers paralleled the general trends seen at the national level. As in the urban environment, the changes affecting reproductive patterns resulted from an increase in the age at marriage of women and the introduction of contraception. However, these changes were apparently minor adaptations to the traditional pattern, in that the progressive increase in mean age at marriage was obtained by the decrease in the frequency of pre-nubile unions (<15 years old) and not from the upward shift of the modal age. On the other hand, contraception apparently was employed to stop childbearing after the expected family size was already attained.

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Trends in moslem fertility and the application of the demographic transition model

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Determinants of contraceptive use in Morocco: stopping behaviour in traditional populations

Determinants of contraceptive use in Morocco: stopping behaviour in traditional populations

The cultural context of Thailand’s fertility decline

Fertility Changes in Rural Moroccan Berbers during the 20th Century

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