AFRICAN HOUSEHOLDS: AN EXPLORATION OF CENSUS DATA

An ACAP virtual conference


 

 

INTRODUCTION
by Etienne van de Walle and Eleanor Preston-Whyte
        (U. of Pennsylvania and U. of Natal)
 

PART I: METHODOLOGY

Chapter 1
"Living Arrangements among the Southern African Sotho: A Comparative Analysis."
       by Ntebaleng Chobokoane and Tukufu Zuberi
       (U. of Pretoria and U. of Pennsylvania)

Chapter 2
"Household Structure, Polygyny and Ethnicity in Senegambia: A Comparison of Census Methodologies." TABLES
       by Etienne van de Walle and Aliou Gaye
       (U. of Pennsylvania and Direction de la Statistique, Dakar)

Chapter 3
"Analyzing Household Structure in a Census that has Little Information on Household Relationships: Tanzania 1988."
       by Teresa G. Labov
       (U. of Pennsylvania)

Chapter 4
"Gender Asymmetry in Household Relationships in a Bilinear Society: The Sereer of Senegal."
       by Michel Garenne
       (CEPED, Paris)

Chapter 5
"Collecting Data on Intra-household Relationships in the Agincourt Health and Population Survey: Benefits and Limitations."
       by Nicholas Townsend, Sangeetha Madhavan, Mark Collinson and Michel Garenne
       (Brown U., U. of Witwatersrand and CEPED)
 

PART II: SUBSTANCE

Chapter 6
"Ethnic Variations in The Living Arrangements of Children in South Africa"
       by Amson Sibanda
       (Brown University)

Chapter 7
"Aging in South Africa and Household Structure."
       by Amadou Noumbissi and Tukufu Zuberi
       (U. of Pennsylvania)

Chapter 8
"Matching Spouses in Monogamous and Polygynous Households in Cameroon."
       by Françoise Bartiaux
       (University of Louvain)

Chapter 9
"Household and Schooling in Burkina Faso: Some Insights from the 1996 Census." FIGURES
       by Idrissa Kabore and Marc Pilon
       (IRD-UERD, Ouagadougou and Institut National de la Statistique, Ouagadougou)

Chapter 10
"Household composition and dynamics in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa: Mirroring social reality in longitudinal data collection"
       by Vicky Hosegood and Ian Timaeus
       (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Africa Centre for Population Studies and Reproductive Health)

Chapter 11
"The Family at the Heart of the Household Evolution and Differentiation of Household Structure in Côte d'Ivoire, 1975-1998."
       by Patrice Vimard and Raïmi Fassassi
       (IRD, Abidjan and ENSEA, Abidjan)

Chapter 12
"The Cultural Significance of Widowhood: Luo Widow Households in the Kenya 1989 Census." 
       by Nancy Luke
       (U. of Pennsylvania)

COMMENTS by Veronique Hertrich, Eleanor Preston-Whyte and Eric Udjo

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