Applied Demography and Public Health in the 21st Century

Type Book Section - Effects of Selected Socio-Demographic Variables on Fertility Among Diabetic Patients in Bangladesh
Title Applied Demography and Public Health in the 21st Century
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2017
Page numbers 349-360
Publisher Springer
URL http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-319-43688-3.pdf
Abstract
he purpose of this study is to assess fertility levels by selected socio-demographic variables obtained data from Rajshahi Diabetes Association , Bangladesh by multiple classification analysis (MCA). Results of this study indicate that children ever born (CEB) increase with increasing age, duration of marriage and duration of suffering from diabetes while CEB decrease with increasing household education, age at first marriage, body mass index (BMI) and duration of sleeping. Also, diabetic females 25–34 years of age are more fertile than other ages. It is also identified that the first through tenth strongest influential factors for explaining the variation on CEB are respondent’s education, duration of marriage, age, living house, duration of sleeping, blood pressure, current living place, age at first marriage duration of suffering from diabetic and BMI respectively.

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