The proximate determinants are, therefore, endogenously determined by the exogenous characteristics.
This paper shows the extent of regional variation in fertility decline in Kenya and determines the potential role of the proximate determinants in explaining regional patterns of fertility in view of recent work on the calculation of Bongaarts's indices of the proximate determinants.
Current fertility (CF) was regressed separately for younger and older women on selected contextual and individual variables, controlling for available proximate determinants.
Additionally, we used meta-regression analyses to examine whether levels of inequality in proximate determinants of infant mortality were associated with social inequalities in infant mortality across countries.
We model the proximate determinants of induced abortion as a nested sequence of events and behaviors, unlike cross-sectional models that view abortion decisions as being made only in the moment.
Proximate determinants are biological and behavioral factors (marriage, contraception, abortion and postpartum infecundity) through which education and others socioeconomic, cultural and environmental 'background' variables affect fertility (Bongaarts 1978 and 1982).
The abortion rate in any society is a function of what are known as "proximate determinants" or "most direct" factors, and social science evidence from throughout the world underscores that the two most important proximate determinants of abortion are 1) desired number of children and 2) the rate and user-effectiveness of contraception.
Many secondary and tertiary factors of course influence the proximate determinants but at the end of the day, these two factors most directly affect unintended pregnancies and by extension abortions.
The basic assumption in the framework is that child mortality is a result of background socio-economic variables operating through proximate determinants or by proximate determinants directly.
Similarly, the association of proximate determinants with infant mortality was statistically significant.
The third model presents the results after adding all the proximate determinants.
