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Age at First Birth and Completed Family Size in West Malaysia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Akbar Aghajanian
Akbar Aghajanian
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Shiraz University, Iran
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Summary

The relationship of completed fertility in West Malaysia to age at first birth, ethnic group, education, work experience and number of marriages is examined by multiple classification analysis. In each ethnic group, the net effect of age at first birth, after allowing for the remaining variables, is strong.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , April 1981 , pp. 197 - 201
Copyright
Copyright © 1981, Cambridge University Press

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