title: Age at return marriage and timing of first birth in India's Uttar Pradesh and Kerala states.
abstract: The study investigates the relationship between age at marriage and the length of first birth interval in two states of India: Uttar Pradesh and Kerala. Life tables of first-birth intervals and median first-birth intervals are computed for several subgroups of the study population. Multivariate hazards modelling technique is used to study the net effect of age at marriage, controlling for a multiple of socioeconomic factors. The result shows that the average first-birth interval varies by age at marriage and is much longer in Uttar Pradesh than in Kerala.
authors.affiliation: Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27516.
authors.forename: K K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Suchindran
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ramakumar
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001721:Birth Intervals; D003625:Data Collection; D004522:Educational Status; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007743:Labor, Obstetric / Q000208:ethnology*; D015993:Life Tables; D008393:Marriage / Q000208:ethnology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011247:Pregnancy; D012067:Religion; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors