Correlates of Population Pressure on Rural Households: A Nigerian Case Study

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Abstract
The illusion of “large reserves of natural resources,” has led to a situation where the Nigerian government adopts a very rudimentary population policy; to her, population pressure in Nigeria is more apparent than real. This paper asserts that there is a “felt” population pressure at the rural household level; the effect of which is explicitly associated with family size and having too many mouths to feed. The main hypothesis investigated is that parents and children from relatively small rural households are qualitatively different from those in large households. Household migration, mortality, maternal health, child growth, nutritional status and child care time are directly related to having “too many” children in the house. The implications of these findings for policy purposes are discussed.

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