The Fertility Transition in Iran: Revolution and Reproduction

• Main Authors: Abbasi-Shavazi, Mohammad Jalal. (Author), McDonald, Peter. (Author), Hosseini-Chavoshi, Meimanat. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Sociology.; Demography.; Social Sciences, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3198-3

Confounding all conventional wisdom, the fertility rate in the Islamic Republic of Iran fell from around 7.0 births per woman in the early 1980s to 1.9 births per woman in 2006. That this, the largest and fastest fall in fertility ever recorded, should have occurred in one of the worlds few Islamic...

Table of Contents:

• 1: The fall in Iranian fertility: introduction and theoretical considerations
• 2: The social, economic and cultural contexts of population policy changes in Iran
• 3: National and provincial level fertility trends in Iran, 1972-2006
• 4: Fertility dynamics using parity progression ratios
• 5: Effects of marital fertility and nuptiality on fertility transition in Iran, 1976-2006
• 6: Contraceptive use: trends, levels and correlates
• 7: Contraceptive use dynamics: Life time use
• 8: A cohort perspective on changes in family, fertility behavior and attitudes
• 9: Womens autonomy and fertility behavior
• 10: Explanations of the past and expectations of the future of fertility in Iran.