Seminar: Early reproduction trap in India: implications and policy challenges’ by Prof Sabu Padmadas, University of Southampton Childbearing trends in India continue to exemplify an ‘early, shorter and fewer’ pattern of reproduction. The implications of these reproductive trajectories and trends are less understood or systematically evaluated by population planners who usually overlook the relevance of underlying process indicators in setting national goals. The aims of this research are to disentangle the sequences and timing of reproductive events among different birth cohorts of Indian women and examine the associated demographic and health consequences at the individual and population levels. The study applies multistate models to examine the cohort variations of events within women’s reproductive careers, using pooled birth history data from three successive rounds of the National Family Health Surveys. The demographic and health impact of early and compressed reproduction are illustrated by examining trends in parity specific measures of infant mortality and child stunting at the individual level, and net reproduction rates and length of generation at the population level. Thursday 23 October, 2:30 – 14:00 Seminar Room, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, 66 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PR. Convener: Dr Melanie Frost You are warmly invited at 2.00 pm (after the seminar) for our Macmillan Coffee Afternoon. southampton.ac.uk/socsci/about/staff/ssp.page#background
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