Differential Fertility and Socioeconomic Status of Shirazi Women: A Pilot Study  

Oleh:

Paydarfar, Ali A. ; Sarram, Mahmood

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 32 no. 04 (Nov. 1970), page 692.

Isi artikel

The hypothesis of inverse relationship between socioeconomic status and differential fertility was reexamined among 641 Shirazi married women of childbearing age in the city of Shiraz, Iran. Occupation, education, and income of the husbands reported by wives were used as measures of socioeconomic status. The number of living children, the number of children ever born, and the birth by parity were used as indices of fertility pattern. The duration of marriage and the age of the subjects were used as control variables. The findings show an inverse relationship between the three measures of socioeconomic status and fertility pattern. Furthermore, the findings clearly show that the Shirazi couples, like many other husbands and wives in the highly advanced and modernized societies of the West, prefer to have smaller families as they become richer and more educated and obtain higher occupations.

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