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title: "New Adolescent Fertility Measures for the Long-term Perspective"
author: "Ann Garbett"
date: "2021-11-03T11:56:50Z"
link: "https://bookdown.org/anngarbett/garbettUNFPA/"
length_weight: "6.9%"
repo: "rstudio/bookdown-demo"
pinned: false
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This book presents new demographic measures of adolescent fertility from a long term perspective. [...] Current understanding of adolescent fertility is limited by an almost exclusive reliance on one fertility measure—the birth rate per thousand adolescents aged 15-19 (or teen birth rate). The teen birth rate falls short because it cannot: account for childbearing throughout all adolescence convey information about age at first birth in adolescence examine patterns of repeat births in adolescence or look at spacing between repeat adolescent births All of these are important aspects of ...
