Papers by Martin Iorsamber
The Effect of Onset and Cessation of Raining Season on Crops Yield in Lafia
Journal of Human Ecology
To examine the relationship between temperatures, birth rates and sex ratios in Makurdi town of ... more To examine the relationship between temperatures, birth rates and sex ratios in Makurdi town of Benue State Nigeria, a total of 23,000 recorded births from the year 2002 to 2011 were collected from six hospitals in Makurdi while temperature records were obtained from the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, Makurdi. Taking mean births and mean temperature as variables, the Pearson’s moment correlation analysis was used to test the relationship between temperatures and births. The result shows that, there is a significant negative relationship between mean temperatures and mean births (r = -0.59, P>0.05). This means that birth rates increases with decrease in temperature. There also exist a significant negative relationship between sex ratios at birth and temperature at conception (r = -0.48, P>0.05). The implication of this is that increase in temperature result to decrease in sex ratios at conception. Therefore, there should be the need to minimize prolong human exposure to high temperature during pregnancy conception in order to reduce its effect.
To examine the influence of social activities on birth rates in Makurdi town of Benue State Niger... more To examine the influence of social activities on birth rates in Makurdi town of Benue State Nigeria, a total of 23,000 recorded births from the year 2002 to 2011 were collected from six hospitals in Makurdi. Tables and graphs were used to present the data. The result shows that, births in Makurdi are characterized with two major peaks and two troughs. There is the March to June peak and the September to October peak. Alternatively, there is also the July-August trough and the December – January trough. Males generally dominate March births while females dominate December births. More pregnancies are conceived in the cool dry season which marks the Christmas and New Year festivities while the hot dry season marking the Easter festivity records the least conceptions. The implication of this is that conception is higher during festive periods that fall within months of low temperature. Therefore, there should be the need to use contraceptives during festivities like Christmas in order to address the issue of high birth rates in our society.
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Papers by Martin Iorsamber