African households
Subtitle: censuses and surveys
By: Etienne van de Walle, editor.
Contributors: Van de Walle, Etienne, 1932-
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Demographic surveys -- Africa; Household surveys -- Africa; Census -- Africa; Africa -- Population
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Etienne van de Walle; title: Approaches to the recording of household structure; title: Household structure, polygyny and ethnicity in Senegambia: a comparison of census methodologies / Etienne van de Walle and Aliou Gaye; title: Analyzing household structure in a census that has little information on household relations: Tanzania 1988 / Tereza G. Labov; title: Collecting data on intra-household relationships in the Agincourt health and population survey: benefits and limitations / Nicholas Townsend, Sangeetha Madhavan, Mark Collinson, and Michel Garenne; title: Household composition and dynamics in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa: mirroring social reality in longitudinal data collection / Victoria Hosegood and Ian M. Timæus; title: Gender asymmetry of household relationships in a bilinear society: the Sereer of Senegal / Michel Garenne; title: The family at the heart of the household: evolution and differentiation of household structure in Côte d'Ivoire, 1975-1998 / Patrice Vimard and Raïmi Fassassi; title: Intra-household relationships; title: Grandparents and grandchildren in the Gambia / Claire M. Noël-Miller; title: Extramarital childbearing and the residence of children in Botswana / Zitha Mokomane, Kristine R. Baker, and Etienne van de Walle; title: Household and schooling in Burkina Faso: some insights from the 1996 census / Idrissa Kabore and Marc Pilon; title: Matching spouses in monogamous and polygynous households of Cameroon / Françoise Bartiaux; title: Local meanings and census categories: widow inheritance and the position of Luo widows in Kenya / Nancy Luke.