ENGLISH

Male Fertility Patterns and Determinants

By Li Zhang (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2011
ISBN
9048189381, 9789048189380, 904818939X, 9789048189397
DOI
10.1007/978-90-481-8939-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1876955 bytes)
Series
The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis 27
Edition
1
Pages
208\227
Topic
Art Graphic Arts
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Demography; Sociologygeneral; Gender Studies

Description

This book discusses the biological, methodological and sociological issues that have caused men to be overlooked in demographic and sociological literature of fertility. It explores the patterns and determinants of male fertility and studies male fertility rates as compared to those of females in 43 countries and places, over time. Data used in the aggregate level analysis come from multiple sources, including the 2001 United Nations Demographic Yearbook, the 1964 to 2004 Taiwan-Fukien Demographic Yearbooks, and National Statistics Reports by the Statistics Bureau of Republic of China. To explore male fertility determinants, the book analyzes individual data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) in the United States. The findings presented here demonstrate that male fertility differs from female fertility in both rates and determinants, which suggests that female fertility cannot fully represent human fertility.

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