Fertility levels and the factors affecting them to the marshes of southern Iraq

Allioui Nasser, Hussein

	Fertility levels and the factors affecting them to the marshes of southern Iraq
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Article 14, Volume 6, Issue 54, 2010, Pages 248-267 PDF (0 K)
Author
Hussein Allioui Nasser
Abstract
In this research paper, analysis of levels, trends and patterns of fertility in the areas of marshes was made. The work was based on a questionnaires distributed to households in 2008,where a variety of analytical methods were applied to know the level of fertility and its vulnerability to factors and different variables. The level of fertility in marshlands, also, was compared to those alike on Arabic, regional and global levels, and it was shown that levels of fertility in the area of the study is the highest among those levels, as level of child-bearing reached 8.7 sons per mother. Goals of research: To know fertility levels in the southern marshes of Iraq, and comparing them locally, globally and with Arab countries as well as recognizing economic, social and cultural factors which mark fertility. Hypothesis : Is that fertility levels are the highest at the level of the country and that those levels are affected by a bulk of factors and variables. The research methodology has been relying on the analytical statistical descriptive method to measure fertility levels and its trends. The research depended on a field study, conducted in 2008 through a questionnaire form distributed in that year to heads of households in the areas of the marshes. The choice of the sample, according to random manner. 1000 of questionnaire forms were distributed, namely 5% of the Marsh people, who are 893487 citizen in total, according to estimates of the year 2007. The study showed that there is a big correlation between the age of first marriage for women and the level of their own fertility. The sample of questionnaire indicated that 60% of women of the study area had been married at the age of less than 20 years. Also, the study showed the presence of an association and proportionality between levels of fertility and the level of education for parents, in one hand, and between women 's work and the degree of their own fertility in the other hand.
Keywords
Fertility levels; and the factors affecting them; to the marshes of southern Iraq

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