Meekers D
Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, USA.
Soc Biol. 1995 Fall-Winter;42(3-4):151-61. doi: 10.1080/19485565.1995.9988897.
Survey data from a number of developing countries show that a considerable proportion of parous women report that they had their first birth one or more years before they first had sexual intercourse. In this paper, I use data from eight African Demographic and Health Surveys to explore factors that contribute to cross-national differentials in the prevalence of these "immaculate conceptions." The results suggest that this data problem results not only from recall errors, but also from the fact that some respondents misinterpret the question on first sexual intercourse and report their age at the onset of intercourse with either their first or current husband rather than their age at sexual initiation.
来自一些发展中国家的调查数据显示，相当一部分已生育妇女报告称，她们首次生育是在首次发生性行为的一年或多年之前。在本文中，我使用来自八项非洲人口与健康调查的数据，来探究导致这些“先孕后性”现象发生率存在跨国差异的因素。结果表明，这一数据问题不仅源于回忆误差，还源于一些受访者误解了关于首次性行为的问题，报告的是与首任或现任丈夫开始发生性行为时的年龄，而非首次发生性行为时的年龄。
