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Workload and Seasonal Variation in Birthrates: Some International Comparisons* BARBARA SPENCER and DEREK HUM University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada RECENTLY NURGE (1970) explored the relationship between the seasonal pattern of birth rates and work load. Examining a month-by-month record of children born each year from 1886-1965 in the German peasant village of Burkhards, Nurge concluded that "more babies are born in the period when there is less work to be done." More recently, Thompson and Robbins (1973) re-examined the question of seasonal variation in conceptions employing monthly data from peasant populations in rural Uganda for 1957-1966 and Mexico for 1963-1970. Their "findings did not support, and in fact appeared to contradict the hypotheses proposed by Nurge which stress the importance of workload as a major determinant of seasonal variation in conception and birth- rates". At the same time Thompson and Robbins were concerned with method- ology. Although stressing the tentative nature of their findings "pending more carefully designed research", they demonstrated the importance of using "eclectic, multivariate models for exploring the multiple effects of socio-cultural and climatic variables on seasonal variations in the frequency of conception and birth." The purpose of this paper is fourfold : first we
International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1976
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