Child death and time to the next birth in Central Java

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Abstract
Data from a two-year prospective study conducted in a rural area of Central Java are used to examine determinants of child mortality and fertility and the relation between the two. Maternal age and birth order were significant determinants of child mortality. While child mortality in turn strongly influenced the timing of the next birth, there is no evidence that the death of a child affected fertility through any but a physiological mechanism. In addition, the better educated have started to abandon traditional birth-spacing practices, and as a result were spacing their children more closely together than more traditional women.

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