IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pid/journl/v39y2000i3p247-261.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A Re-examination of Fertility Transition in Pakistan

Author

Listed:
  • Ghulam Yasin Soomro

    (Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad.)

Abstract

Pakistan is passing through an early stage of fertility transition. The slow-paced transition has been analysed in an earlier study done by Sathar and Casterline (1998), which concludes that the increase in the levels of prevalence has accelerated the fertility transition in Pakistan and as a consequence marital fertility has declined. However, this claim is not supported by the relevant statistics. A re-examination reveals that the effect of contraception is the lowest in the decline of fertility. The rise in marriages and breastfeeding has played a significant inhibiting role in the decline of fertility and marital fertility has remained constant. The structural adjustment programme (SAP), initiated in late 1980s, has led to more poverty and the proportion of never-married has increased in Pakistan as revealed by the Population Census 1998. Labour force participation by the females increased in the post-SAP period. The new economic situation appears to be indirectly responsible for the decline of fertility, and it appears to be consistent with the Malthusian macro theory of fertility.

Suggested Citation

  • Ghulam Yasin Soomro, 2000. "A Re-examination of Fertility Transition in Pakistan," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 39(3), pages 247-261.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:39:y:2000:i:3:p:247-261
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/PDR/2000/Volume3/247-261.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Zeba A. Sathar & M. Framurz Kiani, 1998. "Some Consequences of Rising Age at Marriage in Pakistan," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 37(4), pages 541-556.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Syed Mubashir Ali & Jafar Hussain, 2001. "Fertility Transition in Pakistan: Evidence from Census," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 40(4), pages 537-550.
    2. Mohammad Irfan, 2003. "Poverty and Social Safety Nets: A Case Study of Pakistan," MIMAP Technical Paper Series 2003:15, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.
    3. Syed Mubashir Ali & Mohammad Framurz K. Kiani, 2003. "Ageing and Poverty in Pakistan," MIMAP Technical Paper Series 2003:18, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.
    4. Ehsan U. Choudhri & Mohsin S. Khan, 2002. "The Exchange Rate and Consumer Prices in Pakistan: Is Rupee Devaluation In Inflationary?," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 41(2), pages 107-120.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Rashid Javed & Mazhar Mughal, 2020. "Girls Not Brides: Evolution of Child Marriage in Pakistan," Working Papers hal-03038355, HAL.
    2. Lata Gangadharan & Pushkar Maitra, 2001. "The Effect of Education on the Timing of Marriage and First Birth in Pakistan," ASARC Working Papers 2001-04, The Australian National University, Australia South Asia Research Centre.
    3. doctorants Ined, 2015. "Actes de la Journée Doctorale de l’Ined - 2015," Working Papers 219, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED).
    4. Bola Lukman SOLANKE, 2015. "Marriage Age, Fertility Behavior, and Women’s Empowerment in Nigeria," SAGE Open, , vol. 5(4), pages 21582440156, November.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:39:y:2000:i:3:p:247-261. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Khurram Iqbal (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/pideipk.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.