Kavatiri, Rwego Albert2006-11-142006-11-142006-11-14http://hdl.handle.net/10539/1699Faculty of Humanities School of Social Sciences 0513951x RWEGAL@yahoo.frMost studies indicate that women’s education plays a very important role in driving demographic transition. This study aims at exploring the effect of women’s education on fertility in Rwanda. The study is based on the analysis of the 2000 Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey and employs both direct and indirect methods of estimating fertility. Bongaarts proximate determinants model and such statistical analyses as PATH analysis. The major finding of the study is that although fertility is still high in Rwanda there is some evidence of fertility decline and marriage is the most important proximate determinant of fertility in the country. The study recommends that more studies are needed to find out socioeconomic variables that affect fertility and contribute to low contraceptive use in the country.52676 bytes18313 bytes22696 bytes23840 bytes39033 bytes139117 bytes86495 bytes27447 bytes40815 bytes9795 bytes10350 bytes16073 bytes10150 bytes10300 bytesapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfenFertilityDHSEducationThesis