ABSTRACT
PIP: The author examines links between the timing of various major life events (including women's age at marriage and the spacing of children) and the economic and urban development of a society, using Mexico as an example. The focus is on marriage patterns. She finds that nuptiality influences rural-urban migration for women, as do age and socioeconomic factors and husband's employment status. Data are from the Mexican Fertility Survey for the period 1976-1977. (SUMMARY IN ENG)^ieng
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Age Factors , Birth Intervals , Cohort Studies , Economics , Employment , Life Cycle Stages , Marital Status , Marriage , Population Dynamics , Socioeconomic Factors , Time Factors , Urbanization , Americas , Demography , Developing Countries , Emigration and Immigration , Family , Family Characteristics , Family Planning Services , Geography , Latin America , Mexico , North America , Population , Population Characteristics , Research , Social Class , Urban PopulationABSTRACT
PIP: Variables that influence the labor history of the father with a severely malnourished infant and how those variables influence the nutritional status of the infant were studied. The sample included 78 father-infant dyads--40 with severely malnourished infants (experimental group) and 39 with healthy infants (control group). A structural interview was carried out over a 5 year period (1973-79). Results showed that the labor history appears influenced by these factors: early entry into the labor force, diverse jobs, urban origins, and schooling. The experimental group works more in the informal urban sector and changed more jobs than those in the control group. The nutritional status of the infant is influenced by the father's labor instability, socioeconomic status, origin (whether urban or rural), and family stability. (author's modified)^ieng