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Increment-decrement tables for human reproduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 July 2008
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This paper illustrates the application of increment—decrement life table methods to the study of family building patterns among women. Here age at the oocurrence of a specified birth is considered the principal duration variable. Data from a sample of currently married women from the 1965 US National Fertility Study were used to illustrate the method.
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