RESEARCH PROJECTS
Marriage, consanguinity and family planning in southern Lebanon Information
on all aspects of nuptiality and fertility in Lebanon continue to be lacking.
This project investigates current and recent marriage and family planning
practice in southern Lebanon, traditionally one of the most disadvantaged
regions in the country. It examines the determinants, preferences and trends
associated with marriage and consanguinity, as well as their relations
to family planning. The data are being collected by means of a questionnairamong
currently married women of childbearing age from households selected by
a systematic random sample in four villages. The data is being supplemented
with information from focus group discussions on attitudes and perceptions
concerning marriage and family planning. A. Kulczycki, P.C. Saxena.
(Supported by URB.)
Contraceptive use dynamics in southern Lebanon Although
levels of contraceptive use are high in Lebanon relative to other countries
in the region, they have not increased notably in recent years. This study
examines a number of features of fertility and family planning, including
specific problems related to contraceptive use and other aspects of reproductive
health in South Lebanon. This area is largely inhabited by the Shiite community,
thought to be the largest and fastest growing religious group in the country,
but for which no precise statistics are available. A questionnaire has
been devised and is being administered to 600 currently married women aged
15-49 in six villages of Zahrani district. In addition, a series of focus
group discussions is being conducted with married women and men to investigate
some of these issues further. A. Kulczycki, P.C. Saxena. (Supported
by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.)
A comparative study of the demographic and health situation in selected Arab countries The
study derives national and sub-national estimates of fertility and draws
conclusions about the levels and trends of fertility over the past five
decades for Lebanon. It uses the 1996 Population and Housing Survey (PHS),
the largest and most comprehensive demographic data set for Lebanon since
the last census was held in 1932. In 1996, total fertility rates at the
governorate level stood as high as 4.0 in North Lebanon and as low as 2.0
in Beirut – below replacement level, unlike in other Arab Countries. Cohort
fertility rates ranged from 3.74 in Beirut to 5.86 in Bekaa for women born
in 1947-51, who had essentially completed their childbearing by 1996. Declines
in parities four, five and six have been the major source of family size
reduction. The disparities in fertility are even more striking at the district
level and have widened over time. In the aggregate, fertility decline does
not appear to have been significantly interrupted by the hostilities that
lasted from 1975 to 1991. P. C. Saxena, A. Kulczycki. (Supported
by URB.)
Kulczycki, A., The Abortion Debate in the World Arena. London: Macmillan, 1999/ New York: Routeledge, 1999. Kulczycki, A. and Saxena, P.C., The population, environment, and health nexus: An Arab world perspective. Research in Human Capital and Development, 12, 183-199, 1998. Saxena, P. C. and Aoun, H. Y.*, Women’s education, economic activity and fertility: relationship re-examined. Al-Abhath, 45, 25-39, 1997. Saxena, P.C. and Kumar, D.*, Differential risk of mortality
among pensioners after retirement in the state of Maharashtra, India. GENUS,
53 (1-2), 113-128, 1997.
ABSTRACTS,
PRESENTATIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
Deeb, M. E., Khayat, R. G. and Saxena, P. C., Some problems in the measurement of change through longitudinal studies: examples from Beirut surveys 1984 and 1994. IUSSP General Population Conference, Beijing, China, 1997. Kulczycki, A., Religious systems and abortion: representation and reality. Proceedings of the General Population Conference, II, 781-801, 1997, General Population Conference IUSSP (International Union for the Scientific Study of Population), Beijing, China, 1997. Navaneetham, K.* and Saxena, P.C., Iconic displays for exploratory analysis of multidimensional population data: some applications of Chernoff-type faces. IUSSP XXIII General Population Conference, 1997. Saxena, P. C. and Aoun, H. Y.*, Women’s education, economic activity and fertility: relationship re-examined. IUSSP XXIII General Population Conference, Beijing, China, 1997. Saxena, P. C. and Kulczycki, A., Trends in age at first marriage
and the impact of civil war on the marriage market in Lebanon. Workshop
on New Demography in the Arab Region, Cairo, Egypt, July 26-29, 1998.
El-Hoss, R. U., Trends, differentials and patterns in age at first marriage of males and females in Lebanon (1998). P. C. Saxena. Halawi, N. A., Contraceptive use dynamics in a Shitte population, South Lebanon (þ1997). P. C. Saxena. Ismail, R. H., Quality of life of epilepsy patients after surgery in Lebanon (þ1999). P. C. Saxena and M. Mikati. Srouji,
R. I., Recent fertility transition in Egypt: evidence based on birth interval
statistics and parity progression ratios (þ1999).
P.C. Saxena and A. Kulczycki.
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