| Mean age at childbearing [message #19668] |
Wed, 29 July 2020 08:49  |
JK Praveen
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Registered: July 2020
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I would like to calculate the mean age at childbearing on the religion basis of Indian population. Are there any resources on how to calculate such indicator in Stata?
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| Re: Mean age at childbearing [message #19669 is a reply to message #19668] |
Wed, 29 July 2020 09:33  |
schoumaker
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Registered: May 2013
Location: Belgium
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Hello,
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
https://github.com/DHSProgram/DHS-Indicators-Stata/blob/mast er/Chap05_FE/FE_TFR.do
I think the SPSS codes for fertility indicators are not yet available.
Best regards,
Bruno
Bruno Schoumaker
Centre for Demographic Research
Université catholique de Louvain
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