Correlates of age at first birth among the slum dwellers in Sylhet,Bangladesh

作     者：Laila Ashrafun 

作者机构：Department of SociologyShahjalal University of Science & Technology 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Population,Resources and Environment》 (中国人口·资源与环境（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第16卷第1期

页      面：53-57页

学科分类：0303[法学-社会学] 12[管理学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 03[法学] 030301[法学-社会学] 

主　　题：Age Bangladesh first birth slum 

摘      要：The first birth marks a transition of a woman into *** contributes substantially to overall fertility of each individual *** age at which childbearing begins influences the number of children a woman bears throughout her whole reproductive life ***,the mother s age at first birth influences the total number of births that she might have in her life,which impacts the size,composition,and future growth of the ***-bearing at very young ages is common among the poor in *** objective of the present study is to examine the factors associated with age at first birth among slum dwellers of five selected slums(locally,colony) in Sylhet city corporation area,*** data of this study was collected from 520 women aged 14-50 *** study found that almost 93%of women were married by the ages of 18 years and about 56%of the women have had their first child by the age of 18 *** Ordinary Least Squares(OLS) regression model was used to analyze the factors correlated with women s age at first *** regression model is significant with an F-value of 49.48 and can explain 40.4%of the variation in the dependent variable as it is indicated by the R-square.