Tsimbos Cleon, Verropoulou Georgia, Petropoulou Dimitra
Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece.
Department of Economics, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
SN Soc Sci. 2022;2(8):140. doi: 10.1007/s43545-022-00410-y. Epub 2022 Jul 25.
We study, for the first time, stillbirth differentials among native and migrant populations in Greece using national vital registration microdata for the period of 2010-2014. We employ conventional demographic measures and propose a standardization procedure to delineate the effect of selected distributions of livebirths on the observed stillbirth rates. The stillbirth rate among immigrant mothers is 40% higher than among natives, an excess which persists throughout gestational intervals and age groups. Our findings also show a clear gradient of stillbirth rates by maternal education, favoring more educated women, and this finding applies to both native and immigrant mothers. Our standardization methodology shows that the distribution of births by maternal educational level and age play a role; this finding implies that elevated immigrant stillbirth rates may be attributed to a certain extent to the specific characteristics of this group, since immigrant women have, on average, a younger age structure and lower educational attainment.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s43545-022-00410-y.
我们首次利用2010 - 2014年全国生命登记微观数据，研究希腊本地人和移民人口中的死产差异。我们采用传统的人口统计学方法，并提出一种标准化程序，以描述活产的选定分布对观察到的死产率的影响。移民母亲的死产率比本地人高40%，这种差异在整个孕周和年龄组中都持续存在。我们的研究结果还显示，死产率按母亲教育程度呈明显梯度变化，受教育程度较高的女性死产率较低，这一发现适用于本地和移民母亲。我们的标准化方法表明，按母亲教育程度和年龄划分的出生分布起到了一定作用；这一发现意味着，移民死产率升高在一定程度上可能归因于该群体的特定特征，因为移民女性平均年龄结构较年轻且受教育程度较低。
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