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A parametric model for estimating nuptiality patterns in modern populations
No full textNuptiality is a phenomenon closely related to fertility. The age-specific marriage distribution has a typical shape common in all human populations. In order to estimate this pattern, alternative parametric models have been proposed. However recent evidence suggests that mixture models are required to estimate nuptiality patterns. In this paper, a flexible parametric model is proposed in three versions, appropriate to describe the age pattern of first marriage rates. For evaluation purposes the models as well as the alternative existing models are fitted to a variety of empirical datasets
Inability to conceive and treatment-seeking behaviour in Uttar Pradesh state in India
No full textAn attempt is made to estimate the prevalence of inability to conceive (commonly referred to as infertility) and treatment-seeking behaviour in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, using the District Level Household Survey data collected in 2007–08 (DLHS-3). In Uttar Pradesh, infertility is estimated to be about 11 per cent in females aged 20–34 among the total ever-married women of reproductive age (20–49) whose marital duration is more than two years. Among infertile respondents, more than three-quarters suffer from primary infertility. Also, about 85.0 per cent of women seek treatment for lifetime infertility
