Age at Marriage and First Birth Interval Among Female Internal Migrants

2020 ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
Tiantian He
Keyword(s):  
Birth Interval ◽  
First Birth ◽  
Age At Marriage ◽  
Internal Migrants

EFFECTS OF THE STATUS OF WOMEN ON THE FIRST-BIRTH INTERVAL IN INDIAN URBAN SOCIETY

1999 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
DILIP C. NATH ◽  
KENNETH C. LAND ◽  
GITI GOSWAMI
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Birth Interval ◽  
Caste System ◽  
First Birth ◽  
Age At Marriage ◽  
Family Decision ◽  
The Status ◽  
Family Decision Making ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Status Of Women

The status of women, which is relative and multidimensional, has an important bearing on any long-term reduction in fertility. In Indian society, where cohabitation and childbearing are socially sanctioned only after marriage, the length of the first-birth interval affects the completed family size by influencing the spacing and childbearing pattern of a family. This study examines the influence of certain aspects of the status of married women – education, employment, role in family decision making, and age at marriage – along with three socioeconomic variables – per capita income of the family, social position of the household, and the caste system – on the duration of the first-birth interval in an urban Hindu society of the north-east Indian state of Assam. The data were analysed by applying life table and hazard regression techniques. The results indicate that a female's age at marriage, education, current age, role in decision making, and the per capita income of the household are the main covariates that strongly influence the length of the first-birth interval of Hindu females of urban Assam. Of all the covariates studied, a female's education appears to be a key mediating factor, through its influence on her probability of employment outside the home and thereby an earned income and on her role in family decision making. Unlike other Indian communities, the effect of the caste system does not have a significant effect on first-birth timing in this urban Hindu society.

scholarly journals Drastic changes in fertility level and timing in response to marriage and fertility policies: evidence from Shandong province, China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cuiling Zhang ◽  
Tomáš Sobotka
Keyword(s):  
Bimodal Distribution ◽  
Shandong Province ◽  
Fertility Level ◽  
Fertility Rates ◽  
First Birth ◽  
Age At Marriage ◽  
Child Policy ◽  
Minimum Age ◽  
Minimum Interval ◽  
Second Births

AbstractChina’s “one-child policy” that had been in force between 1980 and 2016 evolved over time and differed widely between regions. Local policies in many regions also targeted the timing and spacing of childbearing by setting the minimum age at marriage, first birth and second birth and defining minimum interval between births. Our study uses data from the 120 Counties Population Dynamics Monitoring System to reconstruct fertility level and timing in nine counties in Shandong province, which experienced frequent changes in birth and marriage policies. We reconstruct detailed indicators of fertility by birth order in 1986–2016, when policies on marriage and fertility timing became strictly enforced since 1989 and subsequently relaxed (especially in 2002) and abandoned (in 2013). Our analysis reveals that birth timing policies have fuelled drastic changes in fertility level, timing and spacing in the province. In the early 1990s period fertility rates plummeted to extreme low levels, with the provincial average total fertility rate falling below 1 in 1992–1995. Second births rates fell especially sharply. The age schedule of childbearing shifted to later ages and births became strongly concentrated just above the minimum policy age at first and second birth, resulting in a bimodal distribution of fertility with peaks at ages 25 and 32. Conversely, the abandonment of the province-level policy on the minimum age at marriage and first birth and less strict enforcement of the policy on the minimum age at second birth contributed to a recovery of period fertility rates in the 2000s and a shift to earlier timing of first and second births. It also led to a shorter second birth interval and a re-emergence of a regular age schedule of fertility with a single peak around age 28.

Effect of First Birth Interval Length on Preterm of Singleton Birth in Korea; 2010-2013

Perinatology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Sang Hwa Park ◽  
Sung Woo Kim ◽  
Hoon Kim ◽  
Dar Oh Lim
Keyword(s):  
Birth Interval ◽  
Interval Length ◽  
First Birth ◽  
Singleton Birth

scholarly journals Survival Analysis and Determinants of The First Birth Interval in Indonesia

CAUCHY ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Alfensi Faruk ◽  
Endro Setyo Cahyono ◽  
Ning Eliyati
Keyword(s):  
Survival Analysis ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Birth Interval ◽  
Cox Regression ◽  
Wealth Index ◽  
First Birth ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Kaplan Meier ◽  
Censored Observations ◽  
Socioeconomic And Demographic Factors

<p class="Abstract">The first birth interval is one of the indicators of women’s fertility rate. Because in most cases the first birth interval contains censored observations, the only appropriate statistical method to handle such data is survival analysis. The main objective of this study is to analyze several socioeconomic and demographic factors that affect the first birth interval in Indonesia using the univariate and multivariate survival analysis, that is Kaplan-Meier method and Cox regression model, respectively. The sample is obtained from 2012 Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS) and consists of 28242 ever married women aged 15-49 at the time of interview. The results show that age at the first birth, women's educational level, husband’s educational level, contraceptive knowledge, wealth index, and employment status are the significant factors affecting the first birth interval in Indonesia.</p>

scholarly journals The effect of sociodemographic variables on child-spacing in rural Saudi Arabia

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-140
Author(s):  
N. N. Al Nahedh
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Infant Feeding ◽  
Birth Interval ◽  
Predictor Variables ◽  
Marriage Education ◽  
Age At Marriage ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Child Spacing ◽  
Positive Factor

Adequate child-spacing is considered a positive factor in the health of mothers and their children. A house-to-house survey of 332 women in Al-Oyaynah village, Saudi Arabia was carried out in April and May of 1995 to determine the existing practice of child-spacing and factors influencing it. The variables examined included age of the mother, age at marriage, education, income, parity, type of infant-feeding and birth order. The age of the mother, age at marriage and education were significantly associated with the length of the birth interval. The current age of mother and her parity were found to be the only significant predictor variables of birth interval

scholarly journals A Probability distribution for first birth interval

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
O. P. Singh ◽  
V. K. Singh ◽  
D. S. Pathak
Keyword(s):  
Probability Distribution ◽  
Live Birth ◽  
Birth Interval ◽  
Probability Model ◽  
First Birth ◽  
Random Group ◽  
Physical Separation ◽  
Developing Societies

The paper attempts to develop a probability model for first birth interval incorporating incidence of foetal wastages prior to live birth and the phenomenon of physical separation which are still prevalent in many developing societies. The fact that fecundability varies considerably over a random group of females is also taken into account. Estimates of certain parameters of the model have been obtained by utilizing a real set of data on the time of first complete conception.

scholarly journals The Determinants of Effective Fecundability Based on the First Birth Interval

Demography ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Kallan ◽  
J. Richard Udry
Keyword(s):  
Birth Interval ◽  
First Birth
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