The Use of Time to Pregnancy for Estimating and Monitoring Human Fecundity From Demographic and Health Surveys.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Available studies on the prevalence of infertility have proved to have certain limitations, with a scarcity of population-based studies and inconsistent reporting from surveys in countries at all income levels. We wanted to test the applicability of the current duration approach to data from the important Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program, funded by USAID since its inception in 1985, https://dhsprogram.com/.

Methods

The current duration approach assumes that there is a well-defined time of initiation of attempts to get pregnant and defines the current duration of a still ongoing pregnancy attempt as the time interval from initiation to interview. The DHS interviews do not have an explicit question about initiation. We focused on nullipari and substitute

SUBMITTER: Keiding N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7707157 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature