An Adjustment of Truncation and Selection Effect for Estimating Conception Rate from First Birth Interval Data
Volume 17, Issue 4 (2019), pp. 756–767
Pub. online: 4 August 2022
Type: Research Article
Open Access
Open Access
Published
4 August 2022
4 August 2022
Abstract
A technique is proposed to estimate the conception rate using the distribution of first birth interval of recently married women. The proposed technique adjusts the truncation and selection effects present in a crosssectional data. Real data from NFHS-3 and NFHS-4 are used for illustration.