African Households

This volume in the ?General Demography of Africa? series encompasses many nations and focuses on a feature of the censuses ? household relationships. African households rank among the most complex in the world. This work makes it possible to investigate relationships among individuals within the household and relate them to household characteristics such as structure and headship. In addition to discussing household composition in comparative terms, the book pays special attention to the place of women in the household, and to the residence of children and the aged. The analyses use micro-data from a variety of countries including Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d?Ivoire, the Gambia, Senegal, Kenya and the Republic of South Africa.

Walle, Etienne Van De

Introduction I. Approaches to the Recording of Household Structure 1. Household Structure, Polygyny, and Ethnicity in Senegambia: A Comparison of Census Methodologies 2. Analyzing Household Structure in a Census With Little Information on Household Relations: Tanzania, 3. Collecting Data on Intra-household Relationships in the Agincourt Health and Population Survey: Benefits and Limitations 4. Household Composition and Dynamics in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa: Mirroring Social Reality in Longitudinal Data Collection 5. Gender Asymmetry of Household Relationships in a Bilinear Society: The Sereer of Senegal 6. The Family at the Heart of the Household: Evolution and Differentiation of Household Structure in Côte d'Ivoire, 1975-98 II. Intra-Household Relationships 7. Grandparents and Grandchildren in the Gambia 8. Extramarital Childbearing and the Residence of Children in Botswana 9. Households and Schooling in Burkina Faso: Some Insights From the 1996 Census 10. Matching Spouses in Monogamous and Polygynous Households of Cameroon 11. Local Meanings and Census Categories: Widow Inheritance and the Position of Luo Widows in Kenya