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Age at First Birth, Fertility, and Contraception in Tanzania (1998)

Ngalinda, Innocent ; Fassmann, Heinz ; Münz, Rainer

Berlin

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Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (300 Seiten)

Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III 1998

DDC: 300

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MS 4100

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Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

Abstract: The first visible outcome of the fertility process is the birth of the first child. The first birth marks a woman's transition into motherhood. It plays a significant role in the future life of each individual woman and has a direct relationship with fertility. The age at which child bearing begins influences the number of children a woman bears throughout her reproductive period in the absence of any active fertility control. For countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where contraceptive use is relatively low, younger ages at first birth tend to boost the number of children a woman will have. However, even when family planning is widespread, the timing of first births can affect completed family size if contraception is used for spacing but not for limiting fertility. The birth of a child is an event of great social and individual significance and its importance is recognised in all human societies. It signifies the transition of a couple into a new social status, i.e. parenthood with its related expectations and responsibilities. It marks the sexual and social maturity of the mother and the visible consummation of sexual intercourse . The relationship between age at first birth and overall fertility in developing countries is generally an underdeveloped area as far as demographic research is concerned. Fertility analysts generally assume that child bearing only occurs within marriage. Then they treat age at first marriage to be a major proximate determinant of fertility. This assumption might have been true in most traditional societies, where births out of wedlock were not accepted and virginity was a prerequisite for marriage. This assumption, however, does not hold true in modern times, where a large number of children is born outside marriage. These facts have been the major motive of conducting the current research. This study examines the reproductive behaviour of Tanzanian women. The study found the average age at first sexual intercourse to be 16 years; age at first marriage to be 17 years, while average age at first child bearing was estimated to be 18 years. By age 15, almost 10 percent of juvenile women have given birth. This study furthermore found that 41 percent of all first live births resulted from premarital conceptions. Out-of-wedlock births account for 24 percent of all first births in Tanzania according to the 1996 TDHS. The education of a woman, place of residence, and religion play the greatest roles in influencing age at first birth in Tanzania. The striking results were place of residence as it was found that rural residents have a higher mean age at first birth than women living in Dar es Salaam. Dar es Salaam women has the lowest mean age at first birth. Moslems have lower age at first birth than Catholics. There is also a strong relationship between age at first birth and age at first intercourse also with infant and child mortality. The results indicate that the younger the age of the mother at the birth of the first child, the higher the chances that the child dies. The study of current levels and trends of fertility showed that, on the average, a Tanzanian woman bears 6 children. Between the 1960s and early 1980s, an average of 7 births per woman prevailed in Tanzania. The declining fertility in Tanzania was confirmed by the analysis of the decomposition of the change of the total fertility rate (TFR) between two TDHSs. It found that natural fertility control is being gradually replaced by contraceptive use although the percentage of women using contraception is still very low. The reduction in infant and child mortality, rising numbers of women attending schools, and a rise in age at first birth are among the factors responsible for the decline in fertility in Tanzania. Education on the other hand has played a major role in raising age at first birth. Education either delays first intercourse and subsequently birth as pregnant schoolgirls are prohibited to attend formal schools or it effects the acceptance of contraception to delay first conception. Specifically, this study establish that there is an inverse relationship between age at first birth and fertility. Marriage is a weak factor in explaining fertility in Tanzania. Women in polygamous unions had fewer number of children ever born than those in monogamous unions in Tanzania. Moslems have a lower fertility than Catholics. Women residing in urban areas have fewer children than those in the rural areas. Women's education is the strongest predictor of the use of contraceptives in Tanzania. Catholic women are less likely to use contraceptives than Moslems. Tanzanian women residing in rural areas are less likely to use contraception than their counterparts residing in urban areas. Although age at first birth did not show any significance, age at first intercourse, age at first marriage and current age are highly related to contraceptive use. Variation in age at first sexual intercourse; marriage; and birth, and the extent of practising contraception are found to depend mainly on religion, place of residence, and the age of a woman. It is important therefore to design separate programmes to raise age at first birth and to lower fertility according to the findings related to religion, place of residence, and target juvenile women separately.

DOI: 10.18452/14446

URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-10011196

URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-10011189

URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-10011205

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Bildungssysteme und soziale Ungleichheit - Die Strukturierung sozialen Handelns im internationalen Vergleich (1998)

Groß, Martin ; Wegener, Bernd ; Bertram, Hans

Berlin

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Language: German

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (394 Seiten)

Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III 1998

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Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; soziale Ungleichheit ; Bildungssysteme ; intragenerationale Mobilität ; Strukturierung ; social inequality ; educational systems ; intragenerational mobility ; structuration ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

Abstract: Die Studie geht der Frage nach, inwieweit Bildungssysteme von Gesellschaften die vorfindlichen Muster intragenerationaler Mobilität prägen und diese sich wiederum auf die Strukturierung sozialen Handelns auswirken. Je nach Grad der Standardisierung, Stratifizierung und horizontaler wie vertikaler Differenzierung von Bildungssystemen werden "credentialistische" und "nichtcredentialistische" Gesellschaften unterschieden. Es wird vermutet, daß in credentialistischen Gesellschaften Bildungstitel die berufliche Allokation wesentlich prägen, was in einem niedrigen Ausmaß intragenerationaler sozialer Mobilität resultiert. Da Bildungstitel in nichtcredentialistischen Ländern nur in geringem Maße als "Screening-Devices" verwendet werden können, ist in solchen Gesellschaften ein höheres Ausmaß intragenerationaler Mobilität zu erwarten. Das Ausmaß intragenerationaler Mobilität in einer Gesellschaft wiederum kann als Indikator des Schließungsgrades beruflicher Positionen aufgefaßt werden. "Geschlossene Positionen" ermöglichen die Generierung "positionaler Renditen", so daß in credentialistischen Gesellschaften stärker als in nichtcredentialistischen Privilegierungen beziehungsweise Benachteiligungen an die Besetzung beruflicher Positionen geknüpft sind. Dementsprechend sind in credentialistischen Gesellschaften ausgeprägtere Formen kollektiven Handeln zu erwarten, die auf die Verteidigung von Privilegien beziehungsweise deren Abbau zielen. Diese Thesen werden an Mobilitäts- und Einstellungsdaten aus sechs Ländern, die auf den Erhebungen des "International Social Justice Project" (1991) basieren, getestet. Es läßt sich zeigen, daß in Westdeutschland und Polen als credentialistischen Ländern sowohl intragenerationale Stabilität wie auch die Strukturierung von Einstellungen stärker ausgeprägt sind als in den weniger credentialistischen Gesellschaften USA und Rußland. Ostdeutschland und Großbritannien nehmen Mittelpositionen ein.

Abstract: The study investigates how educational systems determine the patterns of intragenerational mobility in different societies as well as the patterns of social action. "Credentialist" and "noncredentialist" societies are distinguished according to the degree of standardization, stratification, vertical and horizontal differentiation of their educational systems. It is assumed that educational titles have a strong impact on occupational allocation in credentialist societies, leading to a low degree of intragenerational social mobility. Since educational titles cannot be used as "screening devices" in noncredentialist countries, intragenerational mobility is expected to be higher in these countries. The extent of intragenerational mobility can be viewed as an indicator of the degree of closure of occupational positions in a given society. In "closed positions", "positional rents" can be generated, thus privileges and disadvantages are more strongly connected with occupational positions in credentialist countries than in noncredentialist. Therefore, collective actions to challenge or to defend privileges are more likely in credentialist societies. These hypotheses are tested for six countries using data of the "International Social Justice Project" (1991). It can be shown that intragenerational mobility as well as the structuration of attitudes are more pronounced in the credentialist countries Poland and West Germany than in the noncredentialist countries USA and Russia. East Germany and the United Kingdom are located between these two groups of societies.

DOI: 10.18452/14429

URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-10010806

URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-10010797

URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-10010819

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Kulturelle Aspekte bezirklicher Verwaltungstransformation (1998)

Beckers, Peter

Berlin

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Language: German

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 Seiten)

Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III 1998

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DS 7100

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MF 7000

Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Transformation ; DDR-Verwaltung ; DDR-Jugendhilfe ; Verwaltungskultur ; Verwaltungspersonal ; Berliner Verwaltung ; transformation ; GDR-Administration ; GDR-Youth-work-Administration ; Culture of Administration / Administration Culture ; Administrative Personnel ; Berlin administration ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

Abstract: Die Dissertation leistet einen Beitrag zu einem maßgeblichen Diskussionsstrang der Transformationsforschung, der politische, administrative und gesellschaftliche Auswirkungen kultureller Aspekte im Vereinigungs- und Integrationsprozeß Ostdeutschlands analysiert. Am Beispiel Ost-Berliner Bezirksverwaltungen wird der Verlauf ihrer Transformation von einer "real-sozialistischen zur klassisch-(west-)europäischen Verwaltung" (Klaus König) untersucht. Im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit steht die Frage, ob Handlungsorientierungen des Personals, welches in der DDR sozialisiert wurde, den radikalen institutionellen Umbruchsprozeß überdauerten und inwieweit solche "legacies" (Hellmut Wollmann) Unterschiede zu Orientierungen des Personals in der West-Berliner Bezirksverwaltung begründen. Zu diesem Zweck rekonstruiert der Verfasser realtypische Handlungsorientierungen im DDR-Verwaltungsbereich Referat Jugendhilfe (Akten- und Dokumentenanalyse, "oral history"-Interviews) und stellt sie mit Hilfe eines fünfdimensionalen Schemas denen in der Verwaltung westdeutscher Prägung gegenüber. Anschließend werden unter Verwendung von qualitativen und quantitativen Methoden der Einstellungsforschung Orientierungen des Personals in der Sozial- und Jugendverwaltung Ost- und West-Berliner Bezirksverwaltungen vergleichend analysiert. Im resümierenden Fazit entwickelt der Verfasser Hypothesen zu (verwaltungs-)kulturellen Aspekten des Integrationsprozesses Ost-Berliner Bezirksverwaltungen und stellt sie in den Kontext des Verlaufes ostdeutscher Verwaltungstransformation.

Abstract: This dissertation contributes to the important theme of discussion, analysing the transformational development of the political, administrative and sociological effects and their impact on cultural aspects, with regards to the reunification and reintegration process in East Germany. East Berlin borough administrative bodies have been used as examples to research the course of their transformation from a "socialist, to a classical (west) European administration" (Klaus König). This work centres around the question of how the personnel coped with the orientation, which in the GDR was socialist, survived the process of radical institutional change, and how far such "legacies" (Hellmut Wollmann) provide reasons for differences in the orientation of the personnel in the boroughs of West Berlin. For this reason, the author has reconstructed the typical GDR-orientations in the field of Youth-Work-Administration (Analysis of files and documents, oral-history interviews), which stand in opposition, with the help of a five dimensional scheme, to the administrative character of West Germany. A comparative analysis follows making use of qualitative and quantitative methods regarding recruitment development orientation of the personnel through a comparison of the Social and Youth-Work administrative bodies of East and West Berlin boroughs. In conclusion, the author develops hypotheses regarding (administrative-) cultural aspects of the integration process of the East Berlin borough administrations, and places these in context with the course of the East German transformation.

DOI: 10.18452/14442

URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-10011094

URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-10011085

URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-10011103

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