Levels and Trends in Infant and Child Mortality among some Kanuri of North-east Nigeria

Udjo, Eric O.

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“…Each of these factors have been shown to have strong influence on childhood mortality in different countries and more significantly when a family exhibits more than one of the conditions [9-12]. However, the current study adds to existing knowledge on north south differential in experienced childhood deaths by women in Nigeria [8,13-16]. There is also dearth of information on the estimate of adjusted childhood mortality probabilities in the northern and southern Nigeria.…”

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Survival probability and predictors for woman experience childhood death in Nigeria: “analysis of north–south differentials”

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BackgroundChildhood mortality rate is high in Nigeria. There is dearth of information on the comparison of childhood mortality probability and its causal factors in the Northern and Southern Nigeria. This study was designed to fill these gaps.MethodsNigeria Demographic and Health Survey, 2008 data was used. The first part of this study focused on women aged 15–49 who ever given birth to a child (n = 23,404), irrespective of the survival status of the child and the second part utilized all women aged 15–49 (N = 33,385). The outcome variable was experienced childhood mortality. Data was analyzed using Chi-square, logistic regression and Brass logit model.ResultsResults showed that similar patterns of children’s death were observed in the two regions, but variation existed. Childhood mortality experienced was more pronounced in the North than the South, even when the potential confounding variables were used as control. Levels of education and wealth index showed an inverse relationship with childhood death in the regions (p < 0.05). The gap in childhood mortality experienced between the poorest and richest was wider in the North than the South. There was no significant difference in the risk of childhood mortality experienced by women in the urban and rural areas in the North (p > 0.05), but the difference was significant in the South (p < 0.05). The life-table mortality levels were lower in the North than the South, an indication of higher previous childhood mortality experience in the North than in the South. Across all childhood ages, the smoothed childhood mortality probabilities were consistently higher in the North than the South.ConclusionChildhood mortality is higher in the Northern than Southern Nigeria. Improving women’s education, particularly in the North will alleviate childhood mortality in Nigeria.

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“…The approach has been widely used for the analysis of childhood mortality in different countries and the outcome had produced the expected results [16,20]. …”

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“…The respective levels from the 1981/2 Nigerian Fertility Survey were 5.95 and 6.38. Other studies support a picture of high, fairly stable fertility rates, with estimates ranging between 4.0 and 6.75 (Udjo, 1985;Osuntogun, 1988;see Lockwood, 1991a, for a review of sources).…”

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“…The fact that lactation usually outlasts abstinence in Hausaland increases the uncertainty surrounding birth intervals (Rehan and Abashiya, 1981; see also Faulkingham and Thorbahn, 1975). A second factor is that primary and secondary sterility have been widespread in northern Nigeria (Udjo, 1985;Osuntogun, 1988). This may be due to the high incidence of gonorrhoea (Bello et al, 1983), which is a cause of pathological sterility in Africa (Belsey, 1976).…”

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Sons of the soil? Population growth, environmental change and men's reproductive intentions in northern Nigeria

Lockwood

1997

Int. J. Popul. Geogr.

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This paper is about two radically different views of the relatonship between population and environment, based on detailed interviews with a small group of male farmers in northern Nigeria. The study was aimed at understanding why poor people in areas of environmental pressure and land scarcity continue to have large families. Conventional academic explanations for this, based on economic models, attach great importance to the relationship between population growth, environmental change and the assumed demand for children. However, the farmers interviewed perceived these relationships in radically different ways from the models. This is for three reasons. The first is the nature of environmental change and stability in the local farming system and economy. The second is that land scarcity is conceived of in terms of social and economic scarcity, rather than the availability of a natural resource within fixed geographical boundaries. The third is that their notion of fertility control is not parity‐specific or numerically based. The paper argues that these perceptions render the economic models irrelevant, and are central to an understanding of male farmers' reproductive intentions (and possibly the fertility behaviour of their wives). © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…The resulting crude rate of natural increase is put at 1.5-3.3 per cent p.a. [Udjo 1985], which implies a doubling of the population every 22-45 years.…”

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Food Security and Environmental Degradation in Northern Nigeria: Demographic Perspectives

Lockwood¹

1991

IDS Bulletin

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Matthew Lockwood¡OS Rs//rIfe, 1991. vol 22 so 3. teslitsle of Development Studies, Sussex demographic motivation and behaviour, it is necessary to examine these causes and effects at the level of individuals and households, rather than at district or state level. Two factors are important in this context: first, the proximate determinants of fertility, and potential sources of responsiveness to economic conditions; and, second, the consequences of demographic behaviour, especially for different economic strata.Existing studies suggest that fertility determinants are rather unresponsive to economic conditions, and that economic and kinship relations act to support the maintenance of high fertility, even where land is scarce for some.In a final section, the controversy over policy - In the intervening years, densely settled areas have spread, and towns mushroomed, giving rise to what is At this point a couple of disclaimers must be made. The aim is to provide an approach, not a set of research results. The analysis is based entirely on secondary sources. Secondly, the discussitim of the effects of fertility experience on food security and environmental management relies on sources dealing only with agriculturalists. The situation of Fulani agro-pastoralists in and around the densely settled zones may well be very different. 12

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Levels and Trends in Infant and Child Mortality among some Kanuri of North-east Nigeria

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Survival probability and predictors for woman experience childhood death in Nigeria: “analysis of north–south differentials”

Survival probability and predictors for woman experience childhood death in Nigeria: “analysis of north–south differentials”

Sons of the soil? Population growth, environmental change and men's reproductive intentions in northern Nigeria

Food Security and Environmental Degradation in Northern Nigeria: Demographic Perspectives

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