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Nuptiality and fertility in the Dominican Republic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

G. Edward Ebanks  and
Edilberto Loaiza
G. Edward Ebanks
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Edilberto Loaiza
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
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Summary

Women in marital unions had more live births than those in consensual unions. The relationship between cumulative fertility and the number of fertile sexual unions is positive for the early childbearing years and negative for the later ones. There is no consistent pattern of relationship between fertility and the sociocultural independent variables for different subgroups according to nuptiality pattern. The relationship between fertility and nuptiality in the Dominican Republic is consistent with that for the Caribbean region.

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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 1989 , pp. 71 - 82
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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