title: A study of changes in the marital pattern of Chinese women in the past 40 years.
abstract: "There has been a considerable amount of research on changes in the pattern of first marriage among Chinese women and its impact on [the] fertility rate since 1950.  This paper attempts to establish several indexes for measuring various dimensions subsumed in the status of 'being married'...to expound the inter-relationships between the number and structure of marriages and the index of first marriage in the population."
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001723:Birth Rate; D002681:China; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D005202:Asia, Eastern; D005298:Fertility; D017533:Marital Status; D008393:Marriage; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012107:Research Design
keywords: Asia; Birth Rate; China; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Eastern Asia; Fertility; Fertility Measurements; Fertility Rate--determinants; Marital Status--women; Marriage; Marriage Patterns--changes; Measurement; Nuptiality; Population; Population Dynamics