Family Growth in Metropolitan America /

Family Growth in Metropolitan America / / Charles F. Westoff.

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This analysis is based upon a study of 1,165 couples, all of whom had two children by the time of the interviews and lived in one of the Standard Metropolitan Areas. Its findings shed new light on the relationship between fertility-planning behavior and such variables as socio-economic status, socia...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
VerfasserIn:
Westoff, Charles F.,
MitwirkendeR:
Coale, Ansley J.,
Kiser, Clyde V.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1961
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Office of Population Research ; 1953
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Physical Description:1 online resource (456 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Part I. Introduction
  • Chapter I. Background, Objectives, and Approach
  • Chapter II. Study and Sample Design
  • Chapter III. Methodology
  • Part II. Fertility Variables
  • Introduction to Part II
  • Chapter IV. Fecundity
  • Chapter V. Contraception
  • Chapter VI. Birth Intervals
  • Chapter VII. Preferred Birth Intervals
  • Chapter VIII. Desired Family Size
  • Chapter IX. Summary of the Fertility Variables
  • Part III. Social and Psychological Determinants
  • Chapter X. Concepts and Hypotheses
  • Chapter XI. Religion, Class, and Fertility
  • Chapter XII. Religiousness
  • Chapter XIII. Socio-Economic Status
  • Chapter XIV. Social Mobility
  • Chapter XV. Residence and Migration
  • Chapter XVI. Age and Sex Composition of the Family
  • Chapter XVII. Social Relations within the Family
  • Chapter XVIII. Personality Characteristics
  • Chapter XIX. Summary Multivariate Analysis
  • Part IV. Resurvey
  • Chapter XX. The Next Phase of the Study
  • Appendices
  • Appendix A. Supplement to Chapter IV
  • Appendix Β. Supplement to Chapter V
  • Appendix C. Index Construction
  • Appendix D. Significance Levels of Correlation Coefficients
  • Appendix Ε. Related Publications
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index

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