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This report presents results from a 1986-87 two-stage probability sample survey of 2,507 young men and women aged 14-24 living in the Greater Banjul region of The Gambia. Although premarital sexual activity was common and began at an early age, lack of knowledge and limited access to modern contraceptives were obstacles to the use of family planning. Of all ever sexually active single persons, only 21 percent of the young women and 7 percent of the young men had practiced contraception at...
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ABSTRACT In 1991, shortly after independence, the government of Namibia established a Presidential Commission on Higher Education. The Commission's report contains almost 200 recommendations covering the whole field of post‐school education. The account presented here concentrates on technical and vocational education, access to higher education and inter‐relationships between the various levels of the educational system. Technical and vocational education at the time of independence was...
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∗Some of the material presented here appears in a chapter which the author contributed to a collection of readings on Nigerian primary education (Urwick, 1991). It is repeated here with the permission of the Nigerian Association of Educational Administration and Planning, the publisher.
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Using 1974–75 and 1985–86 income distribution survey data, with the latter supplemented by drought relief data, this paper presents an analysis of intertemporal rural household income distribution in Botswana. Despite the fact that the 1974–75 survey was conducted during one of the best agricultural production periods on record and the 1985–86 survey was conducted in the midst of one of the worst, after the rural income economy had been weakened by a severe and prolonged drought, Botswana's...
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A Research Report submitted to the Faculty of Education, University of the Witwatersrand in partial fulfilment of the degree in of Master of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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This paper summarises the results of a suvey of the level of recognition of European countries by university level students in Ireland and Zimbabwe. While Irish students have a significantly higher level of recognition there are a number of common features between the results of both surveys. Countries with distinctive shapes, large size and/or coastal locations are best recognised. Also the member states of the European Community are generally better known than members of other...
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How do you react to the term Africa? What is the first word that comes to mind? Don't take time to think. Just react. Emotionally. Dark savages, lion, jungle, Tarzan, primitive, mysterious, spear? Any others? Surely the second largest continental land mass on the face of the earth must have a few other characteristics. As a continent, like Europe and Asia, it must have some diversity... .What are [Africans'] nationalities? How many languages do they speak? What religions do they practice?...
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In this pilot study, 288 elderly African-American and 482 white residents of 10 nursing homes in Wayne County, Michigan, were compared for neurological impairment. The frequency of diagnosis of neurological impairment was equivalent for African-American and white males, but greater for African-American females than for white females. Cerebral vascular accident (CVA, or stroke) and nonspecific dementia were the most common neurological diagnoses for all groups. For males but not females,...