The Effect of Women Education on Waiting Time to First Pregnancy of Ever Married Women in Bangladesh: Life Table Analysis
Keywords:
Time to first pregnancy, Life table analysis, trimean, women educationAbstract
Women's education is a useful indicator of their reproductive behavior. The primary goal of this study is to determine the influence of education on the time to first pregnancy among Bangladeshi women aged 15-49. Life table analysis is used to find the monthly pattern of the time to first pregnancy in different educational level. The three summary indices: Cumulative conditional probability of first pregnancy (Bx), the trimean and the interquartile range are calculated to interpret the distribution of time to first pregnancy. According to this study, uneducated women had a lengthier wait period for their first pregnancy. The mean waiting time to first pregnancy is highest among the women with no educational background.ly 86.52% of illiterate women get pregnant within five years of marriage. While 90.71%, 92.86%, and 91.67% of women from primary, secondary, and upper secondary schools became pregnant within five years of marriage, respectively. The present study reveals that level of education influences the waiting time to first pregnancy and the time to first pregnancy is higher among the women who have no educational background. A successful program should be created to enhance the literacy rate of targeted women to 100% in order to minimize the time to first pregnancy and enjoy a happy marital life.
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