BACKGROUND Though there has been profound research on the curious change in correlation between total fertility rate (TFR) and female labor force participation (FLP) in the mid-1980s, aspects of the compositional character of age-specific effects and the nature of countries’ heterogeneity have been neglected. OBJECTIVE The present paper aims to contribute to filling this gap by analyzing annual...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the present study was to determine reproductive health outcomes of seasonal agricultural female workers in rural areas of Eskisehir, Turkey, and to compare such identified outcomes with the country-wide data. METHODS Data in respect of this cross-sectional study were collected during a field visit in July 2012. The study group was formed by all of the distribution camp...

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess fertility outcome after abdominal myomectomy and to examine the influence of the number, size, and location of uterine fibroids pertaining to fertility outcome after the surgery. Study design: Retrospective clinical study. Patients and methods: Fertility outcome from 178 women who had abdominal myomectomy during 2000-2004 were analyzed. Data from w...

Working papers of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research receive only limited review. Views or opinions expressed in working papers are attributable to the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute. 2 1. Introduction The enormous social, economic, and political changes in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 were associated with an abrupt fall in fertility. In ...

INTRODUCTION Life expectancy at birth (LEB) is closely associated with the degree of economic and social development in developed and developing countries. This study aimed to examine the socioeconomic factors affecting LEB in Iran from 1985 to 2013. METHODS Time series analysis was used to examine the effects of key explanatory factors (GDP per capita, number of doctors per 10,000 population...

Demographers have known since the 1940s that standard measures of period fertility, such as the widely used total fertility rate, are distorted by changes in the timing of childbearing. Period fertility rates are depressed during years in which women delay childbearing and inflated in years when childbearing is accelerated. This problem is usually ignored because there has been no generally acc...

Background: To determine whether random-start controlled ovarian stimulation (COS), in which a stimulation is performed regardless to day of patient’s menstrual cycle, has similar outcomes in comparison to conventional early follicular phase-start COS for cryopreservation of fertilized oocytes in cancer patients. Materials and Methods: This prospective study was performed at two infertility cen...

Iran's significant success in implementing Family Planning (FP) during the past 25 years, has made it a role model in the world. The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in Iran has dropped from 6.5 in 1960 to 1.6 in 2012, which is well below the targeted value of 2.2 for the country. Iran's success story, however, did not merely root in the implementation of FP programs. In other words, families' strong...