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Twins Support the Absence of Parity-Dependent Fertility Control in Pretransition Populations
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1571–1595.
Published: 17 July 2020
... of subsequent fertility. Numbers of children surviving to age 14 also increased. Twin births also show no differential effect on fertility when they occurred at high parities; this finding is in contrast to populations where fertility is known to have been controlled by at least some families...
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Reproductive History and Later-Life Comorbidity Trajectories: A Medicare-Linked Cohort Study From the Utah Population Database
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 2021–2049.
Published: 02 November 2015
... serious illnesses afflicting older individuals. Group-based trajectory modeling that accounts for nonrandom attrition due to death is used to identify the number and types of morbidity trajectories by sex and age for 52,924 individuals aged 65–84 in 1992. For females, early age at first birth, high parity...
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Motivations for the use of birth control: Evidence from West Africa
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Demography (1976) 13 (4): 479–493.
Published: 01 November 1976
...Helen Ware Abstract A conventional assumption in the family planning literature is that birth control in developing countries is first adopted by high parity women who wish to cease childbearing. The empirical support for this belief has mainly been drawn from interview surveys on the motivations...
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Family growth and family planning: Responses to a family-planning action program in a rural district of Thailand
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 319–331.
Published: 01 June 1966
.... The frequency of acceptance of family planning practice exceeded the expected frequency among women who were approaching or had attained the “ideal” number of children (4.0 children). High-parity women 40 or more years of age seldom accepted clinical assistance. 14 2 2011 © Population Association...
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Maternal Risk Exposure and Adult Daughters’ Health, Schooling, and Employment: A Constructed Cohort Analysis of 50 Developing Countries
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 835–863.
Published: 06 May 2016
...Qingfeng Li; Amy O. Tsui Abstract This study analyzes the relationships between maternal risk factors present at the time of daughters’ births—namely, young mother, high parity, and short preceding birth interval—and their subsequent adult developmental, reproductive, and socioeconomic outcomes...
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View articletitled, Maternal Risk Exposure and Adult Daughters’ Health, Schooling, and Employment: A Constructed Cohort Analysis of 50 Developing Countries
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Lifetime probability of additional births by age and parity for American women, 1935–1968: A new measurement of period fertility
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Demography (1976) 13 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 February 1976
... and in a particular case it is conceptually analogous to the total fertility by birth order but free from the influence of the parity distribution. Fertility of American women for the period 1935–1968 was studied by use of such lifetime probabilities. It appears that the trend of fertility of high birth orders has...
View articletitled, Lifetime probability of additional births by age and <span class="search-highlight">parity</span> for American women, 1935–1968: A new measurement of period fertility
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Age and parity influences on maternal mortality: United States, 1919–1969
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Demography (1977) 14 (3): 297–310.
Published: 01 August 1977
... percent (see column two of Table 3). The highest percentages of difference occur in the 1950s. In the 1950s, high parities of six or more were becoming rare, and, at the same time, the proportion of all births that were first births was lower than in many other years. In other words, a higher proportion...
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The Family Life Course and Health: Partnership, Fertility Histories, and Later-Life Physical Health Trajectories in Australia
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 777–804.
Published: 17 May 2016
... have since confirmed a negative relationship between high parities and general or self-rated health status for women (Grundy and Holt 2000 ; Read et al. 2011 ; Sudha et al. 2006 ), although Hank ( 2010 ) found that high parity was positively related to self-rated health for West German women...
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The effect of sex preference on fertility: A reply to bairagi
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Demography (1987) 24 (1): 139–142.
Published: 01 February 1987
...Fred Arnold 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1987 1987 Family Planning High Parity Desire Family Size World Fertility Survey International Statistical Institute References Arnold , F. ( 1985 ). Measuring the effect of sex preference on fertility...
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Fertility in New York state in the pre-civil war era
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 345–361.
Published: 01 May 2008
... Biology of Very High Fertility Among the Hutterites: The Demography of a Unique Population . Human Biology , 25 , 205 – 64 . Feeney G. ( 1991 ). Fertility Decline in Taiwan: A Study Using Parity Progression Ratios . Demography , 28 , 467 – 79 . 10.2307/2061468 Feeney G...
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Fertility decline in Taiwan: A study using parity progression ratios
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Demography (1991) 28 (3): 467–479.
Published: 01 August 1991
...Griffith Feeney Abstract Taiwan’s decline in fertility is studied by using period parity progression ratios. Levels of marriage and motherhood are found to have been high and essentially constant though the late 1980s, suggesting that the decline has been due almost entirely to declines in second...
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 529–558.
Published: 25 March 2020
..., psychological well-being, and mental health (Grundy and Read 2015 ; Henretta et al. 2008 ; Keenan and Grundy 2018 ; Spence 2008 ). Findings are similar to those reported for mortality, with early parenthood, childlessness, and high parity associated with poorer health outcomes. Also, some studies have...
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View articletitled, Fertility History and Biomarkers Using Prospective Data: Evidence From the 1958 National Child Development Study
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Research Note: The Association Between Parity and Odds of Alzheimer's Disease and Dementias Status
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1339–1350.
Published: 01 October 2024
..., in a British study, Fox et al. (2018) reported that women (aged 70–100) with more cumulative months pregnant exhibited reduced AD risk because of the long-term neuroprotective effects of estrogen exposure. Also, several studies found that high parity was associated with better memory ability for women...
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On family planning communication
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Demography (1964) 1 (1): 94–105.
Published: 01 March 1964
..., es- pecially among the high parity couples (though as a leading demographer once reminded me, that finding is based on an abstract answer to an abstract question). I have found the following statement by Frank Notestein a dramatic way of thinking about the problem of effecting family planning...
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A Probability Mixture Model of Completed Parity
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 645–658.
Published: 01 November 1981
...Amanda L. Galbeck Abstract This research was designed to find a probability model that would adequately describe completed parity for women in populations characterized by high fertility combined with high zero parity. A negative binomial mixture distribution was adapted for this purpose. The form...
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Educational efforts in the implementation of rural family planning programs in East Pakistan
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 81–89.
Published: 01 March 1967
... size of the first 50 women receiving insertions in our rural clinic was 5.1 living children, which is consistent with the findings of high parity adoption cited above." In regard to our second question con- cerning the acceptance of newer methods 14 Unpublished preliminary data from The Dacca Family...
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Hutterite fecundability by age and parity: Strategies for frailty modeling of event histories
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Demography (1993) 30 (1): 81–102.
Published: 01 February 1993
...Ulla Larsen; James W. Vaupel Abstract Effective fecundability declines with age and parity. Furthermore, women differ in their effective fecundability: some women have persistently low or high monthly chances of live-birth conception. Estimates are presented concerning the magnitude...
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Social and demographic correlates of contraceptive adoption in a rural area of East Pakistan
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 45–54.
Published: 01 March 1968
... for high-parity than for low-parity couples.-It is expected that high-parity couples practice family plan- ning to maintain their current family size, while low-parity couples may practice to limit family size only temporarily. Thus 5 See, for example, Dudley Kirk, "Factors Af- fecting Moslem Natality...
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Which Couples at Given Parities Expect to have Additional Births? An Exercise in Discriminant Analysis
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Demography (1974) 11 (1): 45–56.
Published: 01 February 1974
... parities than at lower ones, while the opposite is true of demographic characteristics. 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1974 1974 Discriminant Function Discriminant Function Analysis High Parity Ideal Family Size Additional Birth References Anderson T. W...
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Comment on N. K. Namboodiri’s “which couples at given parities expect to have additional births? an exercise in discriminant analysis”
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Demography (1975) 12 (4): 665–668.
Published: 01 November 1975
... examination. Namboodiri's maj or finding, based on a discriminant analysis of the NFS data set, is that socioeconomic variables only discrimi- nate among couples who have reached high parity levels with regard to birth expectations. We show, however, that this result is mainly the product of Namboodiri's...
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