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Demography (1973) 10 (3): 315–328.
Published: 01 August 1973
...Karl E. Bauman; J. Richard Udry Abstract Blacks are more likely than whites to have unwanted births. A common explanation for that difference is that blacks use less effective contraceptive methods, use contraception less effectively, and use contraception less often than whites. Analysis of data...
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Demography (1974) 11 (2): 189–194.
Published: 01 May 1974
...J. Richard Udry; Karl E. Bauman Abstract A goal of publicly subsidized family planning programs in the United States is to prevent unwanted births, and the primary means being used to achieve this goal is to increase coverage with physician-administered contraception, with priority being given...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 61–82.
Published: 14 January 2015
... women who report not wanting more children could have social privileges in acquiring medical services, abortion, and contraceptives; and if these women avoid births, the remaining unwanted births would appear less healthy. We find (1) no overall effect of unwantedness on child survival in rural...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 371–388.
Published: 01 February 2022
...-Saharan African regions appear to be still progressing through the first phase of increase, the other three regions have passed that phase by the start of the analysis period. Throughout the decades examined here, unwantedness as a birth-cohort attribute is significantly higher in Latin America and lower...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 83–111.
Published: 09 January 2015
... associations of intention status with maternal behaviors and birth outcomes, but not all. Mistimed and unwanted births were still less likely to be recognized early in pregnancy than intended ones. Fewer unwanted births received early prenatal care or were breast-fed, and unwanted births were also more likely...
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Demography (1994) 31 (2): 347–373.
Published: 01 May 1994
... marital fertility, M, given the age at marriage. Some fraction of this gap is averted, depending on the propensity to avert unwanted births, D. Although none of these components is observed directly, we can estimate each indirectly under strong assumptions. Decline in N*/s accounts for twice as much...
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 55–83.
Published: 19 January 2016
... leading to one additional birth. However, our results also indicate that in the last 20 years, the level of unwanted births has stayed at 2 across African countries but has, on average, decreased from 1 to close to 0 in other developing countries. Hence, women in African countries are less able...
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 637–657.
Published: 01 November 2003
... India, girls currently constitute about 60% of the unwanted births and that the elimination of unwanted fertility has the potential to raise the sex ratio at birth to 130 boys per 100 girls. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2003 2003 Ideal Number Fertility Decline...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 101–125.
Published: 19 February 2011
... that mistimed births may have larger negative effects than unwanted births. This deserves further research, and we offer some possible explanations that could guide those investigations. 20 12 2010 19 2 2011 © Population Association of America 2011 2011 Unintended childbearing Child well...
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Demography (1987) 24 (2): 229–244.
Published: 01 May 1987
...: the neonatal mortality rate, the percentage of low-weight births, and the percentage of preterm births. All three are race specific and all pertain to large counties in the United States in 1977. The results suggest that by preventing unwanted births, abortion enhances the survivability of newborns of a given...
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Demography (1982) 19 (1): 65–78.
Published: 01 February 1982
... with no unwanted births should, for the most part, elimi- nate couples with births in excess of what was planned. Admittedly, this mea- sue of unwantedness has some limita- tions, since reports on the wanted status of a particular birth can change over time. However, it probably constitutes a better measure than...
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Demography (1972) 9 (3): 507–510.
Published: 01 August 1972
...Karl E. Bauman Abstract A goal of the federal family planning program is to enable women to have only those children they want, with priority given to the poor. Is that compatible with the goal of those who want zero population growth? This analysis shows that prevention of all unwanted births...
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 83–94.
Published: 01 February 2000
..., but that unwanted pregnancy has little association with birth weight and child cognitive outcomes. Estimates of the association between unwanted pregnancy and maternal behaviors were greatly reduced after controls for unmeasured family background were included in the model. Our results also indicate...
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 February 1990
... number of months of delay that were actually observed for the women who gave birth. Byallowing women to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, induced abortion increases the average use of prenatal care among black and Hispanic women relative to what would have been observed if the women who aborted had...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1493–1516.
Published: 13 August 2011
... disaggregated seriously mistimed and unwanted births in both the independent and dependent variables in the higher-parity models. Although both seriously mistimed and unwanted births predicted the risk of subsequent seriously mistimed and unwanted births, each specific type of unintended birth more strongly...
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Demography (1976) 13 (4): 463–478.
Published: 01 November 1976
... births; (b) perinatal mortality rate; and (c) illegiti- macy rate. These indices were weighted in the final index in relationship to how much chance we thought the program might have in affecting the particular in- dex. We weighted unwanted fertility five, illegitimacy three, and perinatal mortality one...
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Demography (2007) 44 (4): 729–745.
Published: 01 November 2007
... Williams L. , & Abma J. ( 2000 ). Birth Wantedness Reports: A Look Forward and a Look Back . Social Biology , 47 ( 3–4 ), 147 – 63 . TDemography, Volume 44-Number 4, November 2007: 729 745 729 THE ESTIMATION OF UNWANTED FERTILITY* JOHN B. CASTERLINE AND LAILA O. EL-ZEINI...
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 199–213.
Published: 01 February 2002
... Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). For each birth, a woman is asked a series of four questions about pregnancy intention around the time of conception. Following the NSFG, we classified pregnancies as unintended if they were either mistimed or unwanted. Mistimed pregnancies are unplanned at conception...
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Demography (1975) 12 (4): 573–580.
Published: 01 November 1975
... contraception a one-third probability of conceiving an unwanted pregnancy in five years (Ryder, 1973b). In a year's time, the probability of con- ceiving an unwanted pregnancy was 14 percent; the chance of failing to prevent a birth that was wanted but wanted later than it actually occurred was 26 1970 National...
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Demography (1969) 6 (4): 445–454.
Published: 01 November 1969
... meaningful in relation to ulti- mate completed family size. Beyond sec- ond parity, reports of family-size desires will increasingly include rationalizations of unwanted births in excess of earlier desires. We shall address ourselves here to the extent to which family-size desires expressed after the birth...
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