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Seasonal variation in births in rural East Pakistan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

John Stoeckel  and
A. K. M. Alauddin Choudhury
John Stoeckel
Affiliation:
Pakistan-SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory
A. K. M. Alauddin Choudhury
Affiliation:
Pakistan-SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory
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Summary

An analysis of the monthly distribution of births in two areas of Matlab Thana, East Pakistan, indicates that there is a seasonal variation in births different from what would be expected by chance. The highest proportion of births occur in the last three months of a year and the lowest proportion between May and July. Investigation into some of the environmental and social factors which might contribute to the seasonal pattern revealed the following: mean minimum monthly temperature 9 months before birth was inversely related to the number of births; all occupations had seasonal patterns different from what would be expected by chance and the business and mill-and-office occupations had distributions significantly different from each other; the distribution of births for all pregnancy orders was different from chance and the distribution for first order pregnancies was significantly different from those for third and fourth or higher orders.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , January 1972 , pp. 107 - 116
Copyright
Copyright © 1972, Cambridge University Press

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