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  • Title: Childlessness and fertility.
    Author: Mishra US.
    Journal: IIPS Newsl; 1987 Oct; 28(4):1-4. PubMed ID: 12281034.
    Abstract:
    Data on childlessness may be utilized to understand the fertility behavior of women. This paper describes the age pattern of childlessness by a mathematical model. The model gives the starting age of fecund married life, which is an important indicator of fertility patterns. The relationship of childlessness with age at 1st marriage, total fertility rate and contraceptive prevalence can also be studied with the help of the proposed model. Age at marriage is often taken to be the beginning age of childbearing. But, in fact, the pace and age pattern of natural fertility is largely characterized by the age at which childbearing starts. This model was developed in India using World Fertility Survey data from 6 countries.
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