Socioeconomic status, value orientations, and fertility behavior in India. Academic Article

abstract

• This paper examines the role assumed by value orientations in the explanation of fertility behavior. Specifically the concern is with the extent to which value orientations intervene between, or mediate, the relationship between socioeconomic status and fertility behavior. The relationships between socioeconomic status, four types of value orientations and three aspects of fertility behavior are examined among males in India. In most instances value orientations provide neither the sole nor the partial interpretations of the relationship between socioeconomic status and fertility. The results of this investigation suggest once again the inadequacy of value orientations as predictors of fertility behavior.

authors

• Poston, Dudley

published proceedings

• Demography

author list (cited authors)

• Poston, D. L.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Poston, DL

publication date

• August 1975

publisher

• Duke University Press  Publisher

published in

• Demography  Journal

keywords

• Adult
• Contraception Behavior
• Female
• Fertility
• Humans
• India
• Male
• Marriage
• Middle Aged
• Sex Factors
• Social Values
• Socioeconomic Factors
• Surveys And Questionnaires
• United States

PubMed Central ID

• 1164937

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.2307/2060825

start page

• 417

end page

• 430

volume

• 12

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2060825