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A corduroy road<span> or </span>log road<span> is a type of </span>road made by placing logs<span>, perpendicular to the direction of the </span>road<span> over a low or swampy area. The result is an improvement over impassable mud or dirt </span>roads<span>, yet rough in the best of conditions and a hazard to horses due to shifting loose </span>logs<span>.</span>
For the first two-thirds of the 20th century, Algeria’s high fertility rate caused its population to grow rapidly. However, about a decade after independence from France in 1962 the total fertility rate fell dramatically from 7 children per woman in the 1970s to about 2.4 in 2000, slowing Algeria’s population growth rate by the late 1980s. The lower fertility rate was mainly the result of women’s rising age at first marriage (virtually all Algerian children being born in wedlock) and to a lesser extent the wider use of contraceptives. Later marriages and a preference for smaller families are attributed to increases in women’s education and participation in the labor market; higher unemployment; and a shortage of housing forcing multiple generations to live together. The average woman’s age at first marriage increased from about 19 in the mid-1950s to 24 in the mid-1970s to 30.5 in the late 1990s.
