Title: The demography of French-speaking territories covered by special sample inquiries: Upper Volta, Dahomey, Guinea, North Cameroon, and other areas.

POPLINE Document Number: 681412

Author(s):

Brass W

Source citation:

In: Brass W, Coale AJ, Heisel DF, Lorimer F, Romaniuk A, Van de Walle E. The demography of tropical Africa. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1968. :342-439.

Abstract:

Several demographic sample inquiries have been conducted in African territories formerly administered by France. As a result of the fact that the data were collected with similar objectives and procedures and controlled by statisticians and demographers drawing on a common body of experience, the records have been collected and tabulated in the different areas in much the same form. The similarities make it convenient to treat the studies of these territories as an integral whole. The records analyzed were from sample inquiries covering the countries of Guinea (1954-1955), Upper Volta (1960-1961), Dahomey (1961), and parts of territories. A relatively small section of the records collected will be utilized, partly because the objective is to estimate the basic demographic measures of fertility, mortality, and growth as accurately as possible and partly because of the gaps in the information in these areas. All the surveys were sample inquiries in which the fundamental unit was the household. The primary data for the estimation of fertility and mortality are of 2 types, denoted by the terms "current" and "retrospective." Each section is arranged in subsections which deal with fertility, mortality, reproduction, and age distribution.

Keywords:

Surveys
Statistical Studies
Benin
Cameroon
Guinea
Burkina Faso
Senegal
Mauritania
Cote d'Ivoire
Mali
Data Collection
Demography
Age Distribution
Sex Distribution
Age Specific Fertility Rate
Infant Mortality
Parity
Sampling Studies
Studies
Research Methodology
Developing Countries
Africa, Western
Africa, Sub Saharan
Africa
Africa, Northern
Social Sciences
Age Factors
Population Characteristics
Demographic Factors
Population
Sex Factors
Fertility Rate
Birth Rate
Fertility Measurements
Fertility
Population Dynamics
Mortality