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Some analytical models to estimate maternal age at birth using age-specific fertility rates.

"A class of analytical models to study the distribution of maternal age at different births from the data on age-specific fertility rates has been presented. Deriving the distributions and means of maternal age at birth of any specific order, final parity and at next-to-last birth, we have extended the approach to estimate parity progression ratios and the ultimate parity distribution of women in the population.... We illustrate computations of various components of the model expressions with the current fertility experiences of the United States for 1970."

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[[A projection system for future age-specific fertility rates]].

"This paper presents detailed description of a newly developed fertility projection system which was used in population projections for Japan, and population projections by prefectures, officially announced in September and November 1992 respectively. The system is based on a model of age-specific fertility rates by birth order, and it converts parameters which convey behavioral traits of cohort fertility into age-specific fertility rates of future years." (SUMMARY IN ENG)

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[Least squares fitting of a beta distribution to age-specific fertility rates].

"The paper shows at first that using the method of moments to estimate the parameters of a Beta function to fit age specific fertility rates is inadequate. A solution by means of the least squares method is proposed, under the constraint that the implied Total Fertility Rate should equal the observed value." This "iterative solution by means of the Newton-Raphson method turns out to be extremely efficient, converging in only a few steps. In addition, some characteristics of the Beta distribution related to the problem are obtained. The results, applied to 1980 data from the State of Sao Paulo [Brazil], clearly show a better global fit, especially in the area around the peak of the fertility curve." (summary in ENG)

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Age-specific incidence and prevalence rates of treated epilepsy in an unselected population of 2,052,922 and age-specific fertility rates of women with epilepsy.

BACKGROUND: There are no data on prevalence or incidence of treated epilepsy, and no data on fertility of women with epilepsy from an unselected UK population. METHODS: We used the General Practice Research Database to ascertain the incidence and prevalence of people with treated epilepsy in an unselected population of 2,052,922 people in England and Wales, and also age-specific fertility rates. We defined period prevalence of treated epilepsy as the number of people with epilepsy taking an antiepileptic drug per 100,000 people during 1995. The incidence of treated epilepsy was defined as the number of new cases of treated epilepsy per 100,000 people during the same period. We calculated fertility rates among women with treated epilepsy between 1991 and 1995 and compared these rates with the population rates for England and Wales in 1993. FINDINGS: The period prevalence of treated epilepsy in 1995 was 5.15 per 1000 people (95% CI 5.05-5.25). The prevalence was lower in children (age 5-9 years 3.16 [2.86-3.48]; 10-14 years 4.05 [3.70-4.42]), and higher in older people (65-69 years 6.01 [5.50-6.57]; 70-74 years 6.53 [5.97-7.14]; 75-79 years 7.39 [6.73-8.11]); 80-84 years 7.54 [6.78-8.39]; 85 years and older 7.73 [6.98-8.66]). The incidence of treated epilepsy was 80.8 per 100,000 people (76.9-84.7). The incidence was lower in children (5-9 years 63.2 [50.5-79.1]; 10-14 years 53.8 [42.4-68.3]) and higher in older people (65-69 years 85.9 [68.5-107.3]; 70-74 years 82.8 [65.0-105.2]; 75-79 years 114.5 [116.9-179.2]; 80-84 years 159 [125.2-202.6]; > or = 85 years 135.4 [100.4-178.7]). Fertility was lower among women with treated epilepsy, with an overall rate of 47.1 livebirths per 1000 women aged 15-44 per year (42.3-52.2), compared with a national rate of 62.6 in the same age-group. The standardised fertility ratios were significantly lower between the ages of 25 and 39 years in women with epilepsy (p<0.001). INTERPRETATION: Compared with previous studies, we found that the incidence of epilepsy was higher in elderly people and lower in children. The prevalence rates also increase with age. Women aged 25-39 years with treated epilepsy have significantly lower fertility rates than those in the general population. Research is needed to identify any potentially preventable causes for the low fertility rates.

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Fertility decline and differences in less-developed countries: an anthropological microstudy of some communities of West Bengal, India and Upper Khumbu, Nepal.

The role of socioeconomic and other cultural factors as determinants of fertility change has been widely discussed, with some scholars emphasising an inverse relation between socioeconomic development and fertility, others suggesting that no such relation necessarily exists, and yet others indicating that by using data from various sources it is possible to "prove" that a given country's crude birth rate has declined, remained unchanged or increased. Demographic data are presented on age-sex structure, completed and total fertility rates, and age specific fertility rates by age cohorts of women, from several small, anthropological population units of West Bengal, India and Upper Khumbu, Nepal, exposed to various physical and cultural environmental stresses. The data show that fertility has declined in most of the populations/subpopulations studied and that the decline may, deductively, be attributed to economic development via greater family planning practices.

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A cohort analysis of breast cancer, uterine corpus cancer, and childbearing pattern in Norwegian women.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: The aim was to study the influence of childbearing pattern on the incidence of breast cancer and uterine corpus cancer. DESIGN: This was an ecological study of birth cohorts of women. SETTING: The study was population based, involving the whole of Norway. PARTICIPANTS: The participants were Norwegian women born between 1890 and 1944. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Age specific fertility rates and age specific incidence rates for different birth cohorts were analysed by an age-cohort-period model where quantitative indices of the childbearing pattern substituted the cohort component. The 1890-94 birth cohort had the most favourable childbearing pattern with regard to the risk of breast cancer as well as uterine corpus cancer. The least favourable pattern was in the 1910-14 cohort for breast cancer and the 1940-44 cohort for uterine corpus cancer. In the analysis it is estimated that about 15% of the increase in incidence of breast cancer from 1955 to 1984 may be attributed to changes in the childbearing pattern of the cohorts under study. For cancer of the uterine corpus the corresponding fraction is about 27%. CONCLUSIONS: The study reveals that changes in childbearing pattern may explain a certain fraction of the observed increase in breast and uterine corpus cancer in Norway in the last 30 years, but the largest fraction must be accounted for by other factors.

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