Examining the predictive value of fertility preferences among Ghanaian women
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Examining the predictive value of fertility preferences among Ghanaian women.
Despite extensive research, doubts remain regarding the degree of correspondence between prior stated fertility preferences and subsequent fertility behavior. Preference instability is a factor that potentially undermines predictiveness. Furthermore, if other predictors of fertility substantially explain fertility, then knowledge of preferences may contribute little to explaining or predicting ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Demographic Research
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1435-9871
DOI: 10.4054/demres.2010.22.30