title: Does female education affect fertility behaviour in Pakistan?
abstract: The study explores the relationship between female education and fertility in Pakistan and is based on data from the Pakistan Fertility Survey 1975.  Only slight differentials were identified between women with no education and those who had primary or less schooling.  However, women with more than primary education had notably lower fertility.  Also the role of the intermediate variables such as proportions married, length of breastfeeding, and contraceptive use had significant associations with female education.
authors.forename: Z A
authors.initials: ZA
authors.lastname: Sathar
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001208:Asia; D001723:Birth Rate; D001942:Breast Feeding; D003267:Contraception; D003268:Contraception Behavior; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004522:Educational Status; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005298:Fertility; D006262:Health; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D008393:Marriage; D008423:Maternal Age; D009026:Mortality; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D010154:Pakistan; D010290:Parents; D010298:Parity; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012107:Research Design; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013223:Statistics as Topic
keywords: Age Factors; Age Specific Fertility Rate; Asia; Birth Rate; Breast Feeding; Child Mortality; Contraception; Contraceptive Usage; Data Analysis; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Educational Status--women; Family Planning; Fertility; Fertility Measurements; Fertility Rate; Health; Infant Mortality; Infant Nutrition; Marriage; Marriage Age; Marriage Patterns; Maternal Age; Measurement; Mortality; Nuptiality; Nutrition; Pakistan; Parental Age; Parity; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Reproductive Behavior; Research Methodology; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Southern Asia