Puberty and the Family Formation Process in Sudan: Age-at-menarche Differential Fecundity Hypothesis Revisited

Social Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 246-259

  Otor, Samuel C J ^a   Pandey, Arvind ^b  

^a KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR POPULATION SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OVULATION RATE;

ADULT; AFRICA; AGE; AGE FACTORS--WOMEN; ARAB COUNTRIES; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FAMILY; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY PLANNING; FECUNDITY--WOMEN; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; NORTHERN AFRICA; PARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; PUBERTY; PUBERTY--WOMEN; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH REPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUDAN;

AFRICA; AGE FACTORS--WOMEN; ARAB COUNTRIES; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FECUNDABILITY; FECUNDITY--WOMEN; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; NORTHERN AFRICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PUBERTY--WOMEN; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH REPORT; SUDAN; WOMEN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIRTH INTERVALS; FAMILY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARITY; PUBERTY; SUDAN;

EID: 0032149562     PISSN: 0037766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1998.9988976     Document Type: Article

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