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A reassessment of the effects of female education and employment on fertility in Nigeria

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This paper reassesses the nexus between female education, employment andfertility in Nigeria. The four Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) that havebeen conducted in the country (1990–2008) were analysed. Between 1990 and2008, the educational status of women improved appreciably and the proportionof illiterate women in the country declined from 57.2 to 35.8 per cent.Multivariate analysis suggests that female education was inversely related to theindicators of fertility (P

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  • Onipede Wusu, 2012. "A reassessment of the effects of female education and employment on fertility in Nigeria," Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, vol. 10(1), pages 31-48.
    • Handle: RePEc:vid:yearbk:v:10:y:2012:i:1:p:31-48
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