Estimating the current mean age of mothers at the birth of their first child from household surveys

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Bongaarts, John ^a   Blanc, Ann K ^a  

^a POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH DATE; BIRTH RATE; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; PERIODICITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BIRTH RATE; CHILDLESSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; PARENTHOOD; PRIMIGRAVIDA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 84942193989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12963-015-0058-9     Document Type: Article

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