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Birth intervals and women's economic activity

Birth intervals and women's economic activity
Birth intervals and women's economic activity
Some hypotheses regarding birth spacing and women's work are outlined. Using British census and survey data it is shown that average second and third birth intervals were shorter in marriages taking place in the 10 years following the Second World War as compared with marriages in the period 1900–29; the intervals increased again, measured on a period basis, in the 1970s. Birth intervals for women married during the 10 years after the war were shorter among those economically active at the 1971 census than among the inactive. Some problems of method are discussed.
0021-9320
31-46
Ní Bhrolcháin, Máire
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Ní Bhrolcháin, Máire
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Ní Bhrolcháin, Máire (1985) Birth intervals and women's economic activity. Journal of Biosocial Science, 17 (1), 31-46. (doi:10.1017/S0021932000015455). (PMID:3972855)

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Some hypotheses regarding birth spacing and women's work are outlined. Using British census and survey data it is shown that average second and third birth intervals were shorter in marriages taking place in the 10 years following the Second World War as compared with marriages in the period 1900–29; the intervals increased again, measured on a period basis, in the 1970s. Birth intervals for women married during the 10 years after the war were shorter among those economically active at the 1971 census than among the inactive. Some problems of method are discussed.

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Published date: January 1985

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Local EPrints ID: 193995
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/193995
ISSN: 0021-9320
PURE UUID: 5c02fb76-0355-474d-863a-02764b4ef504

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Author: Máire Ní Bhrolcháin

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