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proximate determinants of fertility: a standalone construct

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proximate determinantsof fertility1 CONSTRUCTProximate determinantsBONGAARTS · 1978

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Demography

The few variables fertility must pass through

The proximate determinants of fertility are the small set of behavioural and biological factors through which every social, economic, or cultural influence on childbearing must act: principally the proportion of women in unions, contraceptive use, induced abortion, and postpartum infecundability from breastfeeding. Bongaarts's 1978 A framework for analyzing the proximate determinants of fertility expressed observed fertility as the maximum biological fertility discounted by a multiplicative index for each determinant, so differences in fertility can be decomposed by mechanism. The referent is this intermediate layer of measurable variables, building on Davis and Blake's earlier intermediate-variables idea, and it lets analysts attribute fertility change to specific channels rather than distal causes.[1]

Unit
Multiplicative indices (0–1) discounting maximum fecundity to observed fertility
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Estimated via the marriage, contraception, abortion, and postpartum-infecundability indices applied to total fecundity

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References

  1. Bongaarts, J. (1978). A framework for analyzing the proximate determinants of fertility. Population and Development Review, 4(1), 105–132. https://doi.org/10.2307/1972149

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