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The Life Journeys of Young Women Project: Objectives, Design, and Recruitment Results.
- Source :
- American Journal of Epidemiology; Jul2011, Vol. 174 Issue 1, p72-80, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- The Life Journeys of Young Women Project is the first population-based study to examine the role of economic uncertainty throughout early adulthood on age at first childbirth. A retrospective cross-sectional component was added to an existing cohort study that is based on a birth cohort of women born during 1973–1975 in Adelaide, South Australia (n ˜ 1,000). An event history calendar instrument was used to obtain data regarding a range of life domains including partnering, educational attainment, home ownership, higher education debt, employment, and pregnancies over a 20-year period (sometimes as detailed as at monthly intervals). Interviews were conducted between 2007 and 2009. An analysis framework applying time-varying and time-constant survival analysis techniques within a life-course framework was developed that will guide analyses to examine the role of duration and life-course timing of economic uncertainty on age at first childbirth. This paper discusses study objectives and design, fieldwork procedures, planned statistical analyses, and recruitment outcomes, focusing on novel features that would facilitate analogous epidemiologic research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ACADEMIC achievement
AGE distribution
ANALYSIS of variance
CONCEPTUAL structures
ECONOMICS
EMPLOYMENT
FERTILITY
INTERPERSONAL relations
INTERVIEWING
LIFE change events
LONGITUDINAL method
MATERNAL age
RESEARCH methodology
PROBABILITY theory
REAL property
RESEARCH funding
SURVIVAL analysis (Biometry)
TIME
UNCERTAINTY
WOMEN
CROSS-sectional method
PROPORTIONAL hazards models
RETROSPECTIVE studies
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00029262
- Volume :
- 174
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- American Journal of Epidemiology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 61782537
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwr047