Mate Selection and Its Impact on Female Marriage Age, Pregnancy Wastages, and First Child Survival in Tamil Nadu, India

Social Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 289-301

  Sureender, S ^a   Prabakaran, B ^b   Khan, A G ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR POPULATION SCIENCES   (India)

^b GVPP Government Degree College ^*  (India)

^c GVPP Government Degree College   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIOLOGY; CHILD SURVIVAL; CONSANGUINITY; COURTSHIP; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT MORTALITY; LENGTH OF LIFE; MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE AGE--WOMEN; MARRIAGE PATTERNS; MATE SELECTION; MATERNAL AGE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NUPTIALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOMES; RELIGION; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH REPORT; SOUTHERN ASIA; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STATISTICS; STUDIES; SURVEYS; SURVIVORSHIP;

ASIA; BIOLOGY; CHILD SURVIVAL; CONSANGUINITY; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GENETICS; HINDUISM; INDIA; LENGTH OF LIFE; MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE AGE--WOMEN; MARRIAGE PATTERNS; MATE SELECTION; MORTALITY; NUPTIALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOMES; RELIGION; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOUTHERN ASIA; STUDIES; SURVEYS; SURVIVORSHIP;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONSANGUINITY; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0032151139     PISSN: 0037766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1998.9988980     Document Type: Article

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