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Effect of infant mortality on subsequent fertility of women in jordan: a life table analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

C. M. Suchindran  and
A. L. Adlakha
C. M. Suchindran
Affiliation:
Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
A. L. Adlakha
Affiliation:
Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Summary

The proportional hazards models of birth intervals based on the data from the 1976 Jordan Fertility Survey indicate that in Jordan the influence of infant death on subsequent fertility is not uniform among all population subgroups. Child survival seems to have only minimal influence on fertility among less educated women and women at low birth orders. In contrast, the probability of a subsequent birth increases significantly following an infant death among women in the high education class and among women in the high birth order group. The impact of infant death is similar among rural and urban women. Further analysis shows that the observed differences in the birth intervals of women with and without infant death experience cannot be attributed to the fecundity differentials of these two groups of women.

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Research Article
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 1984 , pp. 219 - 229
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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