Population processes in the Seychelles
Population processes in the Seychelles
The thesis aims to draw on the existing studies and conduct further investigations in mortality, fertility and migration patterns in order to provide a systematic analysis of population processes in the Seychelles between 1770 and 1994. Several demographic methods are applied to census, vital registration and migration data and other associated qualitative materials. In achieving these objectives, the study examines four core issues. These are: (1) the factors that led to the long-term growth of the Seychellois population, (2) the divergence between male and female mortality since the 1980s, (3) the type of fertility transition pattern the Seychelles exhibits, and (4) the role of the family planning programme in the decline in fertility in the Seychelles since 1966.
Firm conclusions are arrived at with respect to the predominant growth factors between 1770 and 1994 and fertility transition patterns in the Seychelles. In the first hundred years of the existence of the Seychelles population, migration was the main determinant of growth, but it contributed to low population growth throughout the twentieth century. The Seychelles seems to be a half-way house between an African and Asian pattern of fertility transition. It was not possible to detect the cause for the divergence between male and female mortality. The timing of the decline in fertility and the increase in the number of contraceptive users from 1977 to 1996 strongly suggest that the family planning programme has had the greatest impact on fertility than the socioeconomic factors and other proximate determinants of fertility.
As well as estimating net intercensal internal migration between the administrative regions of the Seychelles, the type of international migrants pertaining to age and sex distribution, purpose and destination of migrants are also examined. On the basis of the derived trends in the components of population change, both national and sub national projections are performed.
University of Southampton
Rosalie, Michel Wilvene
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2000
Rosalie, Michel Wilvene
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Rosalie, Michel Wilvene
(2000)
Population processes in the Seychelles.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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The thesis aims to draw on the existing studies and conduct further investigations in mortality, fertility and migration patterns in order to provide a systematic analysis of population processes in the Seychelles between 1770 and 1994. Several demographic methods are applied to census, vital registration and migration data and other associated qualitative materials. In achieving these objectives, the study examines four core issues. These are: (1) the factors that led to the long-term growth of the Seychellois population, (2) the divergence between male and female mortality since the 1980s, (3) the type of fertility transition pattern the Seychelles exhibits, and (4) the role of the family planning programme in the decline in fertility in the Seychelles since 1966.
Firm conclusions are arrived at with respect to the predominant growth factors between 1770 and 1994 and fertility transition patterns in the Seychelles. In the first hundred years of the existence of the Seychelles population, migration was the main determinant of growth, but it contributed to low population growth throughout the twentieth century. The Seychelles seems to be a half-way house between an African and Asian pattern of fertility transition. It was not possible to detect the cause for the divergence between male and female mortality. The timing of the decline in fertility and the increase in the number of contraceptive users from 1977 to 1996 strongly suggest that the family planning programme has had the greatest impact on fertility than the socioeconomic factors and other proximate determinants of fertility.
As well as estimating net intercensal internal migration between the administrative regions of the Seychelles, the type of international migrants pertaining to age and sex distribution, purpose and destination of migrants are also examined. On the basis of the derived trends in the components of population change, both national and sub national projections are performed.
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