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G E Ebanks

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PubMed1992

The Caribbean migrant farm worker programme in Ontario: seasonal expansion of West Indian economic spaces.

The authors describe a program sponsored by farmers in Canada to import seasonal agricultural workers to Ontario from the Caribbean and Mexico. "On the basis of survey data obtained in 1987, this paper focuses primarily on levels of earnings and characteristics of individual participants. Some comparisons are also made between the Ontario programme and one in Florida which also involved temporary West Indian labour." (SUMMARY IN FRE AND SPA)

Agriculture↗
PubMed1989

Nuptiality and fertility in the Dominican Republic.

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.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1981

Socio-demographic correlates of childlessness: an analysis of the 1971 Canadian census.

"The purpose of this paper is to examine childless women and the different socio-demographic characteristics associated with this demographic pattern. The study focuses on the proportion of ever-married and currently married women 15 years of age and over who were childless in 1971. The data source is the 1971 Canadian census 1 percent sample tape based on individual files, which yields a total sample of 46,376 women from all across Canada. The major correlations with childlessness among these women are age and marriage duration. The longer (and earlier) a woman is married, the lower the levels of childlessness when obvious demographic factors are controlled." It is found that "ascribed characteristics of ever-married women provide no meaningful associations to childlessness, and this description is applicable to the variables of religion, ethnicity, mother tongue, home language, and place of birth. Achieved characteristics, especially among the younger cohorts of women, are more revealing, and women who have higher family incomes, higher levels of education, who are living in large urban places and are involved in the labor force (among themselves highly correlated variables) generally have higher rates of childlessness. Implications of these findings are discussed."

Age Factors↗
PubMed1975

Emigration and fertility decline: the case of Barbados.

This paper examines the role of emigration in the recent fertility declines which have occurred on the island of Barbados. Barbados with a history of over two centuries of out-migration has experienced in the period 1951-1970 very significant migration loss. In the period 1960-1970 and up to the present fertility has been declining. An important question is what part has this net migration loss of 32,600 had on the reduction of the crude birth rate from 33.6 in 1960 or from 31.5 in 1956 to 20.5 in 1970? Using officially published net migration loss figures and supplementing them with data on Barbadians living overseas, we calculated the crude birth rates which would have occurred had there been no migration loss. We also calculated the numbers of births to be expected if certain age-specific fertility rates were maintained and compared these with the births to residents plus the calculated births to Barbadians overseas. We conclude that in both cases emigration is a very significant contributor to the fertility declines which have occurred and are still underway.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1969

Patterns of contraceptive use among clients of the Barbados Family Planning Association.

This is a study of the behavior patterns of lower class Barbadian women during the fecund period of their lives with respect to the introduction of new types of contraceptives within a multiple method family planning program. The behavior patterns of these women are examined through their use of the facilities of The Barbados Family Planning Association (BFPA). In 1955, the BFPA was set up to disseminate information on family planning and to provide the material means for family limitation. From its inception, a variety of contraceptive methods have been made available to women utilizing the services. The study is developed within a diffusion theoretic framework that focuses on the trial and adoption stages of the diffusion process. Data are drawn for this thesis from 2 samples: 1) a systematic sample of records kept by the BFPA on its clients, and 2) a systematic stratified sample chosen from patients of the Population Council Research Project (PCRP). (The PCRP was an affiliate of the BFPA between 1965 and 1967.) Patients were interviewed at both the family planning clinics and in their homes. The BFPA has followed the policy of making available at nominal cost all existing contraceptive methods. This has led to very high dropout rates after admission and a considerable amount of method changing. However, changes take place generally in the direction of increasing the reliability of the method used. The lower the reliability of the method, the greater the rate of dropout as well as the rate of change from it. The longer the time spent in the program, the greater the number of methods used; but the longer the time a method is used, the less likely that it will be given up for another method. The transition probabilities for changing from user to nonuser in a year do not remain constant over the 12 years for which the program has been in operation. This is also true for changing from nonuser to user. In the case of the users these probabilities remain constant for time spans of 4 consecutive years; decreasing from one time span to another. The transition probabilities for going from nonuser to user remain constant for time spans of 4 consecutive years over the first 8 years of operation of the program and for the last 3 years. The year 1964 was found to be deviant. However, the probability of going from nonuser to user increases from one time span to the other. Therefore, 3 time subsystems are delimited, each characterized by constant probabilities. Each subsystem represents a unique period in the development of the program.

Barbados↗