THE INFLUENCE OF RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION ON MIGRANTS FERTILITY BEHAVIOR IN CAMEROON

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LEE, BS
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10.2307/2546889
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An autoregressive model has been applied to the 1978 Cameroon World Fertility Survey data to test the fertility adaptation hypothesis of rural-urban migration. The fertility differential between rural-urban migrants and rural stayers is very small in Cameroon when compared with that of Korea and Mexico. However, the lack of fertility differentials between rural-urban migrants and rural stayers which are the result of the unique cultural and biosocial parameters of African fertility does not imply a weak fertility adaptation effect.
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