Sentence examples for fertility behaviour from inspiring English sources

Fig. 2 Fertility behaviour of EGMS lines with daylength and temperature.

This pattern shows a similarity of fertility behaviour amongst the represented women, of which, the explanation needs further investigation.

We examined the association between the intensity of conflict in the region and the fertility behaviour of Palestinian women.

First, fertility rates: total fertility rates are very similar in the US (1.93) to the average of the Scandinavian countries (1.95), and so differences in fertility behaviour do not seem to be behind the differences in female labour market outcomes.

Moreover, a comparison between non-migrants and migrants (either returned or on-going) does not reveal any significant difference in the number of children between the two groups, which indicates no strong relationship between migration and fertility behaviour, at least in the area under study.

In the third edition (1994), Becker introduced a general chapter with an overview of the achievements of human capital research (pp. 15 28), and the whole third part consisted of three previously published papers on the relevance of human capital for family's inequality, division of labour, and fertility behaviour (pp. 255 349).

A potential explanation for this association is confounding by socioeconomic status in the family of origin, as socioeconomic status is related to both fertility behaviours and to long-term health.

These results indicate that selection into specific fertility behaviours based upon socioeconomic status and experiences within the family of origin does not explain the relationship between reproductive history and post-reproductive mortality.

This suggests that Mozambican women were adopting fertility behaviours similar to those of the host population.

We retain these women in the analysis, however, since their abortion history is still important in a context where abortion is normative fertility control behaviour.

Another characteristic of fertility control behaviour in Moldova is the widespread use of abortion: 46% of ever-sexually active women reported having had at least one abortion and about 40% of these women have had two or more abortions.