Time to pregnancy—a model and its application

Biological fertility is poorly measured by the number of children born in industrially advanced societies. The time elapsing from when a couple decides to have a child to clinically recognizable pregnancy is a useful alternative. Time to pregnancy can be collected in broad categories in large sample...

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Published in:Journal of biosocial science 1990-04, Vol.22 (2), p.255-262
Main Authors: Boldsen, Jesper L., Schaumburg, Inger
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Birth Intervals
Denmark
Female
Humans
Models, Statistical
Parity
Population
Pregnancy
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Summary:Biological fertility is poorly measured by the number of children born in industrially advanced societies. The time elapsing from when a couple decides to have a child to clinically recognizable pregnancy is a useful alternative. Time to pregnancy can be collected in broad categories in large samples. A model for condensing important information from such data is presented, which fits several large samples of reported waiting times. It is shown that multiparous women conceive more quickly than primiparous women.
ISSN:0021-9320
1469-7599
DOI:10.1017/S0021932000018587