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Increment-decrement tables for human reproduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

C.M. Suchindran ,
N.K. Namboodiri  and
K. West
C.M. Suchindran
Affiliation:
Department of Biostatistics and University of North Carolina, Chaper Hill, USA
N.K. Namboodiri
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chaper Hill, USA
K. West
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chaper Hill, USA
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Summary

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.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , October 1979 , pp. 443 - 456
Copyright
Copyright © 1979, Cambridge University Press

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