Which Couples at Given Parities Expect to have Additional Births? An Exercise in Discriminant Analysis
Year: 1974
Type: article
Abstract: Do couples at given parities who expect to have additional births differ on selected characteristics from their counterparts who do not expect to have any more children? This question is examined herein focusing attention on the wife’s age, age at marriage, religion, and education and the husband’s education and income. The method used is the discriminant-function analysis. The data are from the 1965 U. S. National Fertility Study. The combined discriminatory power of the social and economic background characteristics examined herein has been found to be greater at higher parities than at lower ones, while the opposite is true of demographic characteristics.
Source: Demography
DOI: 10.2307/2060698
Author: N. Krishnan Namboodiri
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2156287933