DHS WORKING PAPERS Fertility Behavior in Armenia and Moldova: The Decline during the Post-Soviet Transition and Current Preferences Sunnee Billingsley 2008 No. 45 DEMOGRAPHIC AND July 2008 HEALTH This document was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. RESEARCH The DHS Working Papers series is an unreviewed and unedited prepublication series of papers reporting on research in progress based on Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data. This research was carried out with support provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the MEASURE DHS project (#GPO-C-00-03-00002-00). The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. MEASURE DHS assists countries worldwide in the collection and use of data to monitor and evaluate population, health, and nutrition programs. Additional information about the MEASURE DHS project can be obtained by contacting Macro International Inc., Demographic and Health Research Division, 11785 Beltsville Drive, Suite 300, Calverton, MD 20705 (telephone: 301-572-0200; fax: 301-572-0999; e-mail:
[email protected]; internet: www.measuredhs.com). Fertility Behavior in Armenia and Moldova: The Decline during the Post-Soviet Transition and Current Preferences Sunnee Billingsley Macro International Inc. July 2008 Corresponding author: Sunnee Billingsley, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Pompeu Fabra Universitat, Barcelona, Spain; e-mail:
[email protected] ABSTRACT In the context of a fertility decline across the countries of the former Eastern bloc, this paper analyzes the fertility decline in Armenia and Moldova using 2005 Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) data.