Aminul Haque Md, Sayem Amir Mohammad
Department of Population Sciences, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Asia Pac J Public Health. 2009 Jan;21(1):104-11. doi: 10.1177/1010539508329207. Epub 2008 Nov 25.
The age at first birth is very low under existing rural sociocultural settings in Bangladesh. This study examined the socioeconomic and cultural determinants of age at first birth. The study subjects were married women aged 15 to 29 years in 2 rural areas that were identified through a multistage sampling technique. To collect the relevant information, a semistructured interviewer schedule was applied to the eligible women. This study found that 72.8% women gave first birth at <20 years of age with mean age at first birth 18.74 years. Simple linear regression model explained 30.9% of variance in age at first live birth. Among socioeconomic and cultural determinants, family pressure explained the most significant variance. It is really difficult to reduce fertility in complex sociocultural settings in rural Bangladesh. However, the findings of this study may provide an answer to increase the age at first birth and hence to reduce the high fertility among these group of women.
在孟加拉国现有的农村社会文化环境下，初育年龄非常低。本研究调查了初育年龄的社会经济和文化决定因素。研究对象是通过多阶段抽样技术确定的两个农村地区的15至29岁已婚妇女。为收集相关信息，对符合条件的妇女采用了半结构化访谈提纲。本研究发现，72.8%的妇女在20岁之前生育第一胎，平均初育年龄为18.74岁。简单线性回归模型解释了首次活产年龄方差的30.9%。在社会经济和文化决定因素中，家庭压力解释的方差最为显著。在孟加拉国农村复杂的社会文化环境中降低生育率确实很困难。然而，本研究的结果可能为提高初育年龄从而降低这群妇女的高生育率提供答案。
