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Maternal Age at Last Birth in Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Amelia Dale Horne  and
Chirayath M. Suchindran
Amelia Dale Horne
Affiliation:
American University, Cairo, Egypt
Chirayath M. Suchindran
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Summary

A proportional hazards regression model was applied to data on women aged 45–49 from the Egyptian Fertility Survey, to assess the effects of women's education, residence, and marital experience on their age at the birth of their last child. When age at marriage and parity were controlled, well-educated urban women tended to stop reproducing earlier than less educated rural women. Compared to intact first marriages, marital dissolution (divorce, widowhood, or separation) with remarriage tended to prolong the age at last birth, while failure to remarry tended to hasten it.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , July 1988 , pp. 313 - 320
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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