Sex preference and third birth intervals in a traditional Indian society

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dilip C. Nath ◽  
Kenneth C. Land
Keyword(s):  
Birth Interval ◽  
Population Policy ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Birth Intervals ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sex Preference ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Age At First Marriage ◽  
Sample Data ◽  
Regression Techniques

SummaryThe traditional preference for sons may be the main hindrance to India's current population policy of two children per family. In this study, the effects of various sociodemographic covariates, particularly sex preference, on the length of the third birth interval are examined for the scheduled caste population in Assam, India. Life table and hazards regression techniques are applied to retrospective sample data. The analysis shows that couples having two surviving sons are less likely to have a third child than those without a surviving son and those with only one surviving son. Age at first marriage, length of preceding birth intervals, age of mother, and household income have strong effects on the length of the third birth interval.

Fertility in Ankole, Buganda, and Buhaya, 1925–69

Before HIV ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Marital Instability ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Birth Intervals ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Age At First Marriage ◽  
Secondary Sterility ◽  
Divorce Rates ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter reports that the main reasons why fertility rose in Ankole, Buganda and Buhaya were not associated with changing age at first marriage or a growing economic desire for larger families, but rather primarily because of the increased duration of women's reproductive lives. This was partly linked with declining divorce rates in Ankole and Buhaya; Ganda women's increasing willingness to have children outside marriage; and more importantly with a reduction in secondary sterility. A shortening of birth intervals in Buganda from the 1920s, in Ankole from the 1930s and Buhaya from the 1940s, was also significant. The chapter attempts to explain why fertility increase in Ankole occurred decades earlier than in Buganda and Buhaya, yet colonial Ankole was much poorer, less Christianized, and had inferior medical and educational services. This region's exceptionalism is explained mainly by Buganda and Buhaya's marital instability before the 1960s and surprisingly high disease burdens.

Analysis of the Determinants of Marriage to First Birth Interval in Bangladesh

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
pp. 208-219
Author(s):  
Md Mukhlesur Rahman ◽  
Mohitul Ameen Ahmed Mustafi ◽  
Mir Mohammad Azad
Keyword(s):  
Birth Interval ◽  
Proportional Hazards ◽  
Proportional Hazards Model ◽  
Strong Association ◽  
First Birth ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Education Access ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Hazards Model ◽  
Age At First Marriage

In this study an attempt has been made to examine the marriage to first birth interval and also to identify the socio-economic, demographic and cultural factors influencing the first birth interval among married women in Bangladesh. For this purpose the present study utilized the Bangladesh Demographic and health survey (Bdhs, 2004). Birth interval is major determinant of the rates of fertility. The average marriage to first birth interval of the respondent’s is observed to be 33.49 months. Independents test of chi-square and proportional hazards model are used to study the effect of selected background characteristics on first birth interval in Bangladesh. Accepted religion of respondent’s all of the independent variable has strong association with first birth interval. Result from proportional hazards model reveal that respondent’s education, access to mass media, age at first marriage, and use of contraception has highly significant impact on first interval excluding Rajshahi and Khulna division. Husband’s education is partially significant over first birth interval and childhood place of residence has little bit connotation on first birth interval.

scholarly journals Suboptimal birth spacing practice and associated factors among women of reproductive age in West Badwacho district, Hadyia zone, South Ethiopia, 2020: Cross-sectional study design

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alemu Workineh Wassihun ◽  
Yilkal Simachew Hunegnaw ◽  
Teshome Abuka Abebo ◽  
Alex Yeshaneh Bekele
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Birth Interval ◽  
Associated Factors ◽  
Birth Spacing ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
P Value ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Age At First Marriage

Abstract Introduction: Birth spacing is the time gaps between two consecutive life births. One of the key strategies to reduce fertility and promote the health status of mothers and their children is optimal birth spacing. Recent evidences showed that the health of mothers and children with the birth interval of 3 to 5 years is safer than 2 years or less. However, women still have shorter birth intervals and studies addressing their associated factors were scarce. Objectives: To assess prevalence of suboptimal birth spacing practice and its associated factors among women of reproductive age in West Badwacho district, Hadyia Zone, South Ethiopia, 2020.Method and materials: Community based cross sectional study was conducted from February to March, 2020. Multi stage sampling technique was used to select samples of 626 women. Structured and pretested interview based questionnaire was used to collect the data. Data was checked for completeness and entered using EPI data version 3.1 and analyzed using SPSS version 25. Bivariable logistic regression was done and variables with a p-value of < 0.25 in bi-variable logistic regression were recruited as candidate variable for the final multivariable logistic regression model and P value less than 0.05 at 95 % confidence level was taken as statistically significant. Result: The prevalence of suboptimal birth interval in this study was 60.4 %. Independent predictors of suboptimal birth spacing were: age at first marriage less than 18 years (AOR: 2.18, 95% CI=1.34,3.53), HEWs education about birth sapcing (AOR: 1.89, 95% CI=1.02,3.48), non -formal maternal education (A0R: 2.25, 95%CI=1.31,3.87), non -formal husband education (AOR: 2.64, 95%CI=1.74,4.01), sex of index child being female (AOR:1.58, 95%CI=1.06, 2.38),, having poor knowledge on optimal birth interval (AOR: 2.96, 95%CI=1.64,5.37), duration of breast feeding for less than 24 months (AOR: 4.64, 95%CI=2.32,9.29), and modern contraceptive non users (AOR: 6.31, 95%CI=3.99,9.96),Conclusion and recommendation: More than half of the study respondents were practicing suboptimal birth interval. Educational status, age at first marriage, HEWs education about birth sapacing, short duration of breastfeeding was some of the factors associated with the outcome variable. Thus, to optimize birth spacing, strategies of providing information using HEWs, education and communication targeting associated variables should be improved.

SOCIAL–DEMOGRAPHIC INFLUENCE ON FIRST BIRTH INTERVAL IN CHINA, 1980–1992

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZHENG ZHENZHEN
Keyword(s):  
Survival Analysis ◽  
Live Birth ◽  
Birth Interval ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
First Birth ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Age At First Marriage ◽  
First Child ◽  
Social Demographic

This study examines the delay between first marriage and first live birth in China among a sample of women who married between 1980 and 1992. Most couples in China only use contraception after the first child is born. Most sample women had their first child within 2 years of marriage. However, there are significant rural–urban differences in the first birth interval, indicating that there was most probably deliberate fertility regulation after marriage among many urban couples. Survival analysis shows that place of residence, level of education, age at first marriage and marriage cohort affect the first birth interval.

scholarly journals Determinant of time-to-first birth interval after marriage among Ethiopian women

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayele Gebeyehu Chernet ◽  
Dinberu Seyoum Shebeshi ◽  
Akalu Banbeta
Keyword(s):  
Birth Interval ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Frailty Model ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
First Birth ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Age At First Marriage ◽  
Education Of Women ◽  
Individual Woman ◽  
Shared Frailty

Abstract Background Time-to-first birth after marriage has a significant role in the future life of each individual woman and has a direct relationship with fertility. This study aimed to see the determinant of time-to-first birth interval after marriage among Ethiopian women. Methods The data was obtained from 2011 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey which is the third survey. The sample was selected using a stratified; two-stage cluster sampling design and the data was analysed using parametric shared frailty model. Results A total of 7925 ever married women from the nine region of the country were included in this study. Of the total women, 5966 (75.3%) of them gave firstbirth. Age, residence area, employment status, contraceptive use and education of women were associated significantly to time-to-first birth. Conclusions Women having younger age at first marriage, urban women, contraceptive users had prolonged time to first birth interval. There is a need of teaching family for contraceptive use and improving women education to increase the length of first birth interval in Ethiopia.

Fertility, Nuptiality, and Family Limitation Among the Wends of Serbin, Texas, 1854 to 1920

1988 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth H. Fliess
Keyword(s):  
Fertility Decline ◽  
Marital Fertility ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Fertility Rates ◽  
National Scale ◽  
Birth Intervals ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Age At First Marriage ◽  
Family Limitation ◽  
Males And Females

The decline of American fertility on a national scale is a well-known and well-documented phenomenon, but little is known about fertility decline at the community level. Are immigrant groups really different or are they affected by the same factors and respond to them in the same manner as native-born populations? This essay investigates the fertility and nuptiality experience of the Wends of Serbin, Texas using age-specific fertility rates, total marital fertility rates, the index of family limitation, age at last birth, birth intervals and age at first marriage for both males and females. The Wends are shown to have experienced fertility decline in the same magnitude as the rest of the country though they begin and end at higher levels.

Crossover in the Median Age at First Marriage and First Birth: Thirty-Five Years of Change

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kasey J. Eickmeyer ◽  
Krista K. Payne ◽  
Susan L. Brown ◽  
Wendy D. Manning
Keyword(s):  
First Birth ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Age At First Marriage

Marketing Responsible Drinking Effectively to Young Adults

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Colby Doyle ◽  
Matthew Gaudet ◽  
Dominic Lay ◽  
Amber McLeod ◽  
Robert Schaeffer
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Drinking Patterns ◽  
Major Question ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Current Consumption ◽  
Sample Data ◽  
Vague Quantifiers ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Alberta Health

The primary goal of this research is to identify and examine the components of responsible drinking advertisements. We will examine industry and government related advertisements as we try to understand one of our major questions: does the source influence the validity of the message? The next group of major questions that we will be looking to answer is how are the vague quantifiers used in responsible drinking campaigns interpreted by the public?  How many drinks do people consider “too much?” What does “drink responsibly” really mean? The third major question is whether or not an individual’s current consumption patterns of alcohol have any effect on how individuals assess responsible drinking campaigns. Our qualitative research has indicated that social influences can be strongly related with drinking patterns; this will be further examined in our quantitative research. Also, we will be looking into some of the psychology behind industry and government sponsored advertisements as well as gathering and interpreting information from a sample of our target demographic. Our target demographic consists of both male and females between the ages 18-24. Our literature review and qualitative analysis gave us good insight into some of the potential answers to our questions. We will use these potential answers from our previous research to guide us as we attempt to conduct conclusive research based on a sample data of 169 individuals. Our findings will aid us in developing conclusions and recommendations for Alberta Health Services.

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