Illustrative Analysis: Family Structure and Fertility

摘要

The purposes of this illustrative analysis are: (1) To discuss some of the issues involved in the study of fertility as related to family or household structure; (2) To present the problems and techniques involved in using World Fertility Survey (WFS) data for this purpose; (3) To present illustrative findings using WFS data with respect to two different countries. For this purpose, the two countries chosen were Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, which, even though both are in south Asia, have considerable cultural differences from each other and also an appreciable degree of intra-country diversity.