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Fertility estimation from retrospective surveys: Biases attributable to pregnancy-related movement of mothers

Author(s) -

Krishnan Srinivasan,

A. Muthiah

Publication year - 1987

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2061634

Subject(s) - fertility , context (archaeology) , developing country , sample (material) , survey sampling , survey data collection , estimation , geography , population , selection bias , demography , medicine , economic growth , economics , statistics , sociology , chemistry , mathematics , management , archaeology , chromatography , pathology

In a number of developing countries, especially in South Asia, there is a custom for a pregnant woman to go to her mother’s home for delivery and remain for some months afterwards. In this context, estimates of various fertility measures, based on data from a sample survey of resident women, will be seriously biased. Inclusion of data for visitors to the sample households does not fully compensate for this bias. The presence and magnitude of the bias is illustrated by the analysis of data from large-scale sample surveys conducted in the state of Orissa in India and by World Fertility Survey data from Bangladesh and Nepal.

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