Etude de la Population Africaine
Volume 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 590-600

The stall in fertility decline in rural, Northeast, South africa: The contribution of a self-settled, Mozambican, Refugee sub-population (Article)

Ibisomi L.* , Williams J. , Collinson M.A. , Tollman S.
  • a Demography and Population Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
  • b MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder, United States
  • c MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå University, Sweden
  • d MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå University, Sweden, INDEPTH Network, Ghana

Abstract

Using longitudinal data from the Agincourt Health and socio-Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) in rural South Africa, this paper examines the role of the fertility of self-settled, former Mozambican refugee sub-population on the stall in fertility decline in the Agincourt HDSS from 1993 to 2009. The Agincourt HDSS fertility trend is decomposed to quantify the relative contribution of the Mozambicans to fertility changes. Results show that fertility level declined by about 1.5 children per woman over the period and the level remain around 2.5 children per woman in the last eight years of the period examined suggesting a stall in fertility decline in the sub-district population covered by the HDSS. However, while the fertility of the Mozambicans fell consistently over the period, there was a reversal in the fertility decline of South African women residing in the area suggesting that the overall stalls are attributable to stalls in fertility decline among South African women. © 2014, Union for African Population Studies. All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

Mozambican refugee Fertility Stall South Africa

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ISSN: 08505780
Cited by: 3
Original Language: English