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