Migration and interbirth transition rate using Benin Demographic and Health Survey data: Does episode-splitting matter?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The relationship between migration and fertility has vexed demographers for years. One issue missing in the literature is the lack of careful temporal consideration of when women migrate and specifically, the extent to which they do either before or after live births.

Objective

Here, we opt for a more appropriate methodological approach to help remedy the complexity of the temporal aspect of migration and childbirth processes: regression models using the episode-splitting method.

Methods

This paper applies a rarely used methodological approach (episode-splitting) in the literature of migration-fertility relationship to investigate how internal in-migration is associated with inter-birth intervals among women in Cotonou, the largest city of Benin. Data comes

SUBMITTER: Banougnin BH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8535178 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature