Ethnicity, Marriage, and Fertility in Kazakhstan

The project aimed at understanding how challenges of the post-Soviet transformations in the multi-ethnic nation of Kazakhstan may have affected its residents’ preferences and choices regarding marriage and childbearing. The project utilized data from the 1995 and 1999 Kazakhstan Demographic and Health Surveys (KDHS) as well as other available relevant data to examine marital and reproductive dynamics, focusing in particular on ethnocultural differences in timing of first marriage, timing of marital births, and recourse to induced abortion. While promising important scientific contributions, the project also constituted a necessary initial step toward a more comprehensive study of sociodemographic adjustments to dramatic societal changes in post-Soviet Central Asia.

The project was directed by Victor Agadjanian (PI). Jennifer Glick was the co-PI. The project is funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R03HD44020).

Publications

Agadjanian, Victor, Premchand Dommaraju, and Jennifer E. Glick. 2008. “Reproduction in upheaval: Crisis, ethnicity, and fertility in Kazakhstan” Population Studies 62 (2): 211-233

Dommaraju, Premchand, and Victor Agadjanian. 2008. “Nuptiality in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia” Asian Population Studies 4 (2): 195-213

Last modified on 20-Jan-10