The same was found in the case of the Malian censuses of 1976 and 1987. [...] In the case of wars, on the other hand, the age structure of the population may change drastically. [...] This is a result of a combination of factors including: shift in the incidence of marriage, shift of incidence of first births and increases in divorce and of separation of spouses due to several reasons. [...] In the study of Kampuchea, Ming-Try (1981:217) noted the following: 'the decline in births in the years 1975-1978 was due above all to excess male mortality, to excess work, to the separation of couples during evacuation, and to the mobilization of the young to the front and into production.' The highest fertility during the war period will be in the first year of war (largely for women pregnant b. [...] Assuming that the intensity of the war I=1.5 and the ratio of the force of mortality to that of emigration was 2.0, we estimate the pre-censal female population.
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