Shaikh K
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
J Biosoc Sci. 1990 Jan;22(1):53-61. doi: 10.1017/s002193200001837x.
This paper examines the effects of age at marriage and differential mortality of males and females on the incidence of widowhood between the sexes. Abridged life tables constructed from marital status and death registration data of a rural area of Bangladesh for the period 1974-79 were used. The difference in life expectancy between males and females varies from 0.4 to 2.2 years at the ages 0 to 65 years and over. The mortality differentials show that the probabilities of a male or a female surviving the other spouse would be approximately the same, were there no other influence. But the incidence of widows is about ten times that of widowers. Other relevant factors, under a given regime of mortality, are age at marriage and age difference between husband and wife.
本文研究了结婚年龄以及男女死亡率差异对两性丧偶发生率的影响。我们使用了根据孟加拉国农村地区1974 - 1979年婚姻状况和死亡登记数据构建的简略生命表。在0至65岁及以上年龄段，男性和女性的预期寿命差异在0.4至2.2岁之间。死亡率差异表明，如果没有其他影响因素，男性或女性比配偶活得更长的概率大致相同。但寡妇的发生率约为鳏夫的十倍。在给定的死亡率情况下，其他相关因素包括结婚年龄以及夫妻之间的年龄差。
