Socio-economic and demographic determinants of fertility in six selected Pacific Island Countries: An empirical study.

In this study, we seek to perform macro analysis of fertility in a panel of 6 selected Pacific Island Countries (PICs, hereafter). The macro analysis with secondary data, mostly obtained from World Bank database, stretched over the period 1990-2019 was stacked randomly in a balanced panel set-up, wi...

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Autores principales:	Sumeet Lal, Rup Singh, Keshmeer Makun, Nilesh Chand, Mohsin Khan
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:308088d75a734fa89fb1bb4ce0533cd62021-12-02T20:14:17ZSocio-economic and demographic determinants of fertility in six selected Pacific Island Countries: An empirical study.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0257570https://doaj.org/article/308088d75a734fa89fb1bb4ce0533cd62021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257570https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203In this study, we seek to perform macro analysis of fertility in a panel of 6 selected Pacific Island Countries (PICs, hereafter). The macro analysis with secondary data, mostly obtained from World Bank database, stretched over the period 1990-2019 was stacked randomly in a balanced panel set-up, within which the most preferred fixed effect model is used for multivariate analysis. Pooled OLS and Random effect estimation techniques were applied for comparing results. Categories such as women's empowerment, health, connectivity and cost of living were used to classify proxy variables as regressors for fertility determination. The results indicate variables such as contraceptive prevalence rate, female labour force participation rate and consumer price index (inflation) are negatively correlated with fertility at 1% level, while urbanisation is negatively correlated with fertility rate only at 10% significance level. Real GDP has negative relationship with fertility, however it is not statistically significant. Variables that are positively correlated with fertility but hold limited to no significance effects are female secondary enrolment, female population, mobile subscription and infant mortality rate. It is implied that those variables that are negatively associated with fertility, as well as Real GDP will be the major drivers for achieving replacement level fertility in the long run.Sumeet LalRup SinghKeshmeer MakunNilesh ChandMohsin KhanPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0257570 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Sumeet Lal Rup Singh Keshmeer Makun Nilesh Chand Mohsin Khan Socio-economic and demographic determinants of fertility in six selected Pacific Island Countries: An empirical study.
description	In this study, we seek to perform macro analysis of fertility in a panel of 6 selected Pacific Island Countries (PICs, hereafter). The macro analysis with secondary data, mostly obtained from World Bank database, stretched over the period 1990-2019 was stacked randomly in a balanced panel set-up, within which the most preferred fixed effect model is used for multivariate analysis. Pooled OLS and Random effect estimation techniques were applied for comparing results. Categories such as women's empowerment, health, connectivity and cost of living were used to classify proxy variables as regressors for fertility determination. The results indicate variables such as contraceptive prevalence rate, female labour force participation rate and consumer price index (inflation) are negatively correlated with fertility at 1% level, while urbanisation is negatively correlated with fertility rate only at 10% significance level. Real GDP has negative relationship with fertility, however it is not statistically significant. Variables that are positively correlated with fertility but hold limited to no significance effects are female secondary enrolment, female population, mobile subscription and infant mortality rate. It is implied that those variables that are negatively associated with fertility, as well as Real GDP will be the major drivers for achieving replacement level fertility in the long run.
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author	Sumeet Lal Rup Singh Keshmeer Makun Nilesh Chand Mohsin Khan
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title	Socio-economic and demographic determinants of fertility in six selected Pacific Island Countries: An empirical study.
title_short	Socio-economic and demographic determinants of fertility in six selected Pacific Island Countries: An empirical study.
title_full	Socio-economic and demographic determinants of fertility in six selected Pacific Island Countries: An empirical study.
title_fullStr	Socio-economic and demographic determinants of fertility in six selected Pacific Island Countries: An empirical study.
title_full_unstemmed	Socio-economic and demographic determinants of fertility in six selected Pacific Island Countries: An empirical study.
title_sort	socio-economic and demographic determinants of fertility in six selected pacific island countries: an empirical study.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/308088d75a734fa89fb1bb4ce0533cd6
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Socio-economic and demographic determinants of fertility in six selected Pacific Island Countries: An empirical study.

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