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Socioeconomic status, value orientations, and fertility behavior in India

Author(s) -

Dudley L. Poston,

Joachim Singelmann

Publication year - 1975

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2060825

Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , fertility , value (mathematics) , demography , developing country , socioeconomics , population , economics , statistics , mathematics , sociology , economic growth

This paper examines the role assumed by value orientations in the explanation of fertility behavior. Specifically the concern is with the extent to which value orientations intervene between, or mediate, the relationship between socioeconomic status and fertility behavior. The relationships between socioeconomic status, four types of value orientations and three aspects of fertility behavior are examined among males in India. In most instances value orientations provide neither the sole nor the partial interpretations of the relationship between socioeconomic status and fertility. The results of this investigation suggest once again the inadequacy of value orientations as predictors of fertility behavior.

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