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JK Praveen2020-07-29T12:49:44-00:00Re: Mean age at childbearing
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You can compute age-specific fertiliy rates by religion, and from them compute mean age at childbearing.
With Stata, you can use the tfr2 command, that will compute age-specific fertility rates, TFR and mean age at childbearing (with the mac option). For instance, if you type
by v130, sort : tfr2, mac
You will have age-specific fertility rates, TFR and MAC by religion.
This works fine with the latest DHS in India, but you should be careful to use the correct all-women factors when computing age-specific fertility rates with previous surveys, when they were conducted among ever married women. I did not check if all-women factors are available by religion; if not, you can compute them from the household data.
You can also have access to the Stata programs for fertility rates on