Socio-economic factors associated with unwanted births to married women: a geographical analysis using census indicators
| Autor: | R. Hebel, Mary E. Brennan |
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| Rok vydání: | 1975 |
| Předmět: |
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Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Population Fertility Pregnancy Economics Humans Marriage education Socioeconomics Rank correlation media_common education.field_of_study Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Social Sciences Overcrowding Census Pregnancy Unwanted United Kingdom Parity Crowding Socioeconomic Factors Marital status Female Parity (mathematics) Developed country Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Biosocial Science. 7:463-472 |
| ISSN: | 1469-7599 0021-9320 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0021932000010324 |
| Popis: | SummaryThe proportion of unwanted births to married women who were delivered in a district maternity hospital during a 3-month period in 1971 was computed for each ward in the administrative area. The percentage varied from 5 to 20% with an average of 10%. These results were compared with the distributions of socio-economic variables derived from the 1971 Census. Party was shown to be the most important indicator; Kendall's rank correlation coefficient was 0·56 (P |
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