Some methodological considerations in the analysis of current status data
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4269307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Bracher (0000-0001-5861-2657, Universitas Gadjah Mada), Gigi Santow (Universitas Gadjah Mada) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 425-437 |
| Publication date | 1981-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00324728.1981.10404394 |
| PMID | 28466773 |
| OpenAlex | W4237032573, W2086155424 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
Recent attention has focused on the length of the post partum period of infecundity in those societies where child-spacing has traditionally been achieved through post partum sexual abstinence or prolonged breast-feeding. The tabulation of proportions of women abstaining at interview by the age of the youngest child has been suggested as a technique free of problems of digital preference and memory lapse, while being otherwise equivalent to the distribution of the proportion of women abstaining by completed months since their last confinement, calculated from retrospectively-collected durations of abstinence. Both stochastic and deterministic models demonstrate that the techniques are comparable only when they are applied to non-recurrent events such as first marriage. Childbearing, and the relaxation of the proscription on post partum sexual intercourse, is a recurrent event, and the distribution of proportions of currently abstaining women according to the age of their youngest child is heavily biased. This finding invalidates the use of the post partum current status distribution
Abstinence · Developmental psychology · Family planning · Political science · Population · Post partum · Preference · Pregnancy · Proscription · Psychiatry · Research methodology · Sexual abstinence · Statistics · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Health disparities and outcomes · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Medicine · Psychology
Biological Aspects of Demography
Findings and implications of a correlation analysis of the closed and the open birth intervals
The Role of Marital Sexual Abstinence in Determining Fertility
The post-partum non-susceptible period
Some problems in the use of open birth intervals as indicators of fertility change
Age at marriage and proportions marrying
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1987 - 2003 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |