By illustrating the demographic composition of individual investors in DSE Bangladesh, examining relationship between factors and investment amount, exploring investors' periods, highlighting emotional state, identifying impact internal feeling on investors’ decision establishing correct decision-making, current study seeks to fill knowledge gap regarding influence aspects making process. Prima...

Studies worldwide have established a close link between higher socioeconomic status (SES) and demographic outcomes such as lower infant and child survival. This relationship has often been studied by utilizing information on ownership of household assets. Recently, we examined the effect of a proxy for SES on child survival in Malawi using the 1987 and 1998 census data. Results showed that in 1...

The principal sources of information on the rapid fall in fertility in Kenya since 1980 are, first, the birth histories compiled in the Kenya Fertility Survey (KFS) of 1977-78 and the three Demographic and Health Surveys (KDHS) of 1989, 1993 and 1998, and, second, the data on children ever born and on births in the last twelve months obtained in the population censuses of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1...

This research uses data from the 1994-1995 Zimbabwe Aging Survey complemented by the 1999 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey to examine living arrangements and conditions of older people in Zimbabwe. Living arrangements in Zimbabwe are similar to those found in other sub-Saharan African countries. Older people are likely to be living with other kin and in a variety of arrangements involving...

Authors: GBENGA A KAYODE ([email protected]) VICTOR T ADEKANMBI ([email protected]) OLALEKAN A UTHMAN

BACKGROUND Education and wealth may have different associations with female obesity but this has not been investigated in detail outside high-income countries. This study examines the separate and inter-related associations of education and household wealth in relation to obesity in women in a representative sample of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). METHODS The seven largest nationa...

AmlaPitta and ParinamaSula are two major diseases encountered by present day physicians. This article describes the clinical and demographic aspects of AmlaPitta and ParinamaSula.