FERTILITY IN MARRIED WOMEN

Components of small area variation in fertility rates among married women in south India.

OBJECTIVE To adapt and develop a method for finding out what proportion of the variation among small areas in the number of births to married women is excess (systematic) variation over and above the chance (random) variation. METHODS We adopted a two-stage sampling procedure to select 20 sub-centres in south India. We contacted all households and collected information on recent births and so...

Determinants of High Fertility Status among Married Women: a Case Control Study

Married Immigrant Women and Employment

This study examines whether the transition probability from employment to nonemployment among married immigrant women is consistent with the Family Investment Hypothesis (FIH). A dynamic random effects model is used and the estimations are based on a longitudinal database covering the period 1990-1996. The results indicate that the relationship between the transition probability from employment...

Sexual coercion of married women in Nepal

BACKGROUND Sexual coercion is an important public health issue due to its negative association with social and health outcomes. The paper aims to examine the prevalence of sexual coercion perpetrated by husbands on their wives in Nepal and to identify the characteristics associated with this phenomenon. METHODS The data used in this paper comes from a cross-sectional survey on "Domestic Viole...

Factors Influencing Depression in Married Immigrant Women

This study is a descriptive correlation study to determine the factors that affect immigrant women depression. In this study, migrant known factors on the impact of depression on women on the basis of previous studies acculturation stress, family stress, marital satisfaction, life satisfaction by focusing on variables such as the impact on immigrant women depression and depression check the eff...