Assessing and interpreting birth spacing goals in Costa Rica
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1998
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Journal Biosocial Science, Vol. 30, No. 2
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181-191
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A procedure for assessing birth spacing goals, an important component of fertility preferences, is proposed and applied to 1993 Costa Rican data. Based on a reverse or backward survival analysis, preferred birth intervals are estimated to range between 3.5 and 4.5 years (1%5 years for the interval union to first birth). These intervals are 2 or 3 years shorter than crude estimates from data on open or last closed intervals, which are upwardly biased by selection and left censoring effects. To achieve these spacing preferences, a cohort must spend about two-thirds of the time using contraception (one-third in the interval union to first birth). An inverse association between desired family size and desired birth interval is evident only in parity-specific analyses.
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NACIMIENTO, ESPACIAMIENTO DE LOS NACIMIENTOS, COSTA RICA