Presentations | Working Papers

Publications

 

Adetunji, Jacob and Monica Das Gupta. "Women and Mortality Trends." In Encyclopedia of Women in the Third World, edited by Stromquist, Garland Publishers, New York, 1998.

Sibanda, Amson. 1998. "Reproductive Change in Zimbabwe and Kenya: The Role of the Proximate Determinants in Recent Fertility Trends". Social Biology, vol. 46, no. 1-2

Sibanda, Amson. 1999. "The Kenyan Fertility Transition: An Age-Parity Specific Analysis of Fertility Levels and Trends". Genus. vol. LV, no. 3-4.


Noumbissi, Amadou, 1999. "Données et méthodes pour l’analyse de la mortalité des adultes en Afrique: les acquis et les nouveaux défis", in The African Population in the 21st Century, UAPS-NPU, vol. II, pp.397-411.


Noumbissi, Amadou and Jean Paul Sanderson, 1999. "La communication entre conjoints sur la planification familiale au Cameroun: Les normes et les stratégies du couple en matière de fécondité", Population, 1, 1999, pp. 131-144.

Ayaga A. Bawah, Patricia Akweongo, Ruth Simmons, and James F. Phillips.1999. "Women’s Fears and Men’s Anxieties: The Impact of Family Planning on Gender Relations in Northern Ghana", Studies in Family Planning, 30(1):54-66.


Pierre Ngom, Patricia Akweongo, Philip Adongo, Ayaga A. Bawah, and Fred Binka. 1999. "Maternal Mortality in the Kasena-Nankana District of Northern Ghana", Studies in Family Planning, 30(2):142-147 .


Rutaremwa, G. 1999 "Regional Differences in Infant and Child Mortality: A comparative study of Kenya and Uganda", in The African Population in the 21st Century, UAPS-NPU, vol. II, pp.311-328.

Sibanda, Amson and Tukufu Zuberi, 1999. "Contemporary fertility levels and trends in South Africa: Evidence from reconstructed census birth histories." in The African Population in the 21st Century, UAPS-NPU, vol. I, pp.79-108.


Zuberi, Tukufu and Amson Sibanda. Forthcoming. "Fertility estimation in sub-Saharan Africa: Applying own-children methods to African censuses." in Reproductive Change in Sub-Saharan Africa, IUSSP, Oxford: Oxford University Press.


Sibanda, Amson. 2000. "A nation in pain: Why the HIV/AIDS epidemic has gotten out of hand in Zimbabwe." International Journal of Health Services, vol. 30, no. 4.


Sibanda, Amson. 2000. "The Course and Structure of Fertility Decline in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Zimbabwe". (Under review).


Cornelius Debpuur and Ayaga A. Bawah. 2000. "Are Reproductive Preferences Stable? Evidence from Rural Northern Ghana". GENUS, LVIII (n. 2), 63-89.

Bolaji Fapohunda and Naomi Rutenberg. 2000."What Men Say about Contraceptive Use in Kenya" Managing Editor, African Sociological Review (Forthcoming).

Ayaga A. Bawah and Tukufu Zuberi, 2000. "Estimating Childhood Mortality in Africa Using Census Data: The case of Zambia" (Currently Under Review)

Pierre Ngom, Cornelius Debpuur, Patricia Akweongo, Phillip Adongo, Fred Binka. 2003. "Gate-keeping and Women’s Health Seeking Behavior in Navrongo, Northern Ghana". African Journal of Reproductive Health. 7(1),17-26.

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Presentations

 

Adetunji, Jacob. Mothers Education and Infant Mortality. Presented at Bowling Green State University, Department of Sociology. February 13, 1998.

Adetunji, Jacob. Discussant of African Papers in an internet conference organized by Professor Etienne van de Walle and Dr. Elisha Renne on the theme, No Menses, No Births: Menstrual Regulation and Its Fertility Implications, February, 19-22, 1998.

Sibanda, Amson. The Course and Structure of Fertility Decline in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Zimbabwe and Kenya. Paper presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Chicago. April 1998.

Zuberi, Tukufu and Amson Sibanda. Fertility Decline in sub-Saharan Africa: What Can We Learn from Analyzing African Censuses? Presented at International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Seminar on Reproductive Change in sub-Saharan Africa, Nairobi. November, 1998.

Noumbissi, Amadou. Exploitation efficiente des des recensements et création de base de données compactées, Une application à l'étude des inégalités de scolarisation au Cameroun. Presented at AFRISTAT – AISE – ENSEAIRD – SFdS Colloque francophone sur les enquêtes et systèmes d’information, Abidjan, 27 - 30 avril 1999.


Ayaga Bawah, Husband-Wife Communication and Subsequent Fertility Planning Behavior: A Longitudinal Assessment from the Navrongo Panel Study System, paper presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 23-25, 2000.

Gideon Rutaremwa, Maternal Factors and Child Survival Birth in Uganda, paper presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 23-25, 2000.

Amson Sibanda and Eliya Zulu, Changes in Household Structure in South Africa: A Comparison of the Apartheid and Post-Apartheid Eras, paper presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 23-25, 2000.

Shasta Jones, Characteristics and Determinants of Female Migration in Southern Africa, paper presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 23-25, 2000.

Amadou Noumbissi, Where the Man Loses His Power in Africa: The Fertility Strategies of Women in Cameroon, paper presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 23-25, 2000.

Amson Sibanda, Ethnicity, Socio-Economic Status and Age at First Birth in South Africa: Does Social Origin and Group Heterogeneity Matter? paper presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 23-25, 2000.

Ayaga Bawah and Tukufu Zuberi, Using Own-Child Procedures to Estimate Childhood Mortality: The Case of Zambia, poster presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 23-25, 2000.

Amadou Noumbissi and Ayaga Bawah, Estimating the Covariates of Childhood Mortality from Census: An Application to Kenya and Zambia Data, poster presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 23-25, 2000.

Pierre Ngom, Ibrahima Sarr, and Aliou Gaye, Ethnic Diversity and Assimilation in Senegal: Evidence from the 1988 Census, paper presented at the American Sociological Association Meeting, Washington, August 2000.

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Working Papers

Find below a list of Working Papers currently available from the African Census Analysis Project (ACAP), Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania. If you would like to receive a printed copy of the paper, fill out the Order Form and send it to ACAP. A downloadable version (PDF) of some the papers along with the abstract is available

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Population Studies Center
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ACAP W. P # 1, January 1999. Fertility Estimation in sub-Saharan Africa: Applying Own-Children Methods to African Censuses.

Tukufu Zuberi, Amson Sibanda

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ACAP W. P # 2, January 1999. Using Indigenous Knowledge in the Demarcation of the Enumeration Areas: A Case Study of Banta Chiefdom, Moyamba District, Sierra Leone.

Herbert S. Kandeh

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ACAP W. P # 6, March 1999. Racial Classification and Colonial Population Enumeration in South Africa.

Tukufu Zuberi, Akil K. Khalfani

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ACAP W. P # 7, March 1999. Racial Classification and the Census in South Africa, 1911-1996.

Tukufu Zuberi, Akil K. Khalfani

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ACAP W. P # 8, April 1999. Contempory Fertility Levels and Trends in South Africa: Evidence from Reconstructed Birth Histories.

Amson Sibanda, Tukufu Zuberi

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ACAP W. P # 11, August 1999. Estimating Childhood Mortality from Census Data in Africa: The case of Zambia.

Ayaga A. Bawah, Tukufu Zuberi

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