The paper discusses the current patterns of sexual unions in rural Haiti. After reviewing the historical and contemporary factors influencing the relatively low proportions of rural women legally married, an approach to categorizing Haitian unions using culturally meaningful categories is presented. Drawing on data from the 1977 Haitian Fertility Survey Pretest, collected on 747 rural women, the paper analyzes current union status and age at first union, and associated socioeconomic background factors.
Sexual Unions in Rural Haiti
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