caa a22 4500 386396655 CHVBK 20180307112140.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021932000018149 doi S0021932000018149 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021932000018149 Fertility on the US-Mexico border [Elektronische Daten] Using Bongaarts' model, the relative importance of the proximate determinants of fertility is explored in five populations on the US-Mexico border. For the groups closest to natural fertility (the two Mexican groups), lactation, use of contraception, and marriage all were moderately important in terms of their direct effect on fertility. For the group with lowest fertility (Anglo-American), contraceptive use was an important factor inhibiting fertility; marriage was important but not nearly as important as contraceptive use. For the two US Mexican-American groups, contraceptive use was an important intermediate variable, not as important as for Anglo-Americans, but more important than it was for the two populations in Mexico. The proportion married was a moderately important factor for the Mexican-American groups. For these five populations the principal differences in fertility rates result from substantial differences in the use of effective contraception. Bongaarts' model proved very useful as an analytical framework in this study. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Warren Charles W. US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control, Center for Health Promotion and Education, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Monteith Richard S. US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control, Center for Health Promotion and Education, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Johnson J. Timothy US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control, Center for Health Promotion and Education, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/4(1989-10), 409-418 0021-9320 21:4<409 1989 21 JBS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000018149 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000018149 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Warren Charles W. US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control, Center for Health Promotion and Education, Atlanta, Georgia, USA NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Monteith Richard S. US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control, Center for Health Promotion and Education, Atlanta, Georgia, USA NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Johnson J. Timothy US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control, Center for Health Promotion and Education, Atlanta, Georgia, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/4(1989-10), 409-418 0021-9320 21:4<409 1989 21 JBS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge