Graduating Age at First Caesarean Delivery of Female

Authors

Brijesh P. Singh, Faculty of Commerce, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, IndiaFollow
Shweta Dixit

Author Country (or Countries)

India

Abstract

The caesarean delivery is a mode of delivery appears, as an uncommon practice in present scenario in developed as well as developing societies. Also this mode of delivery of children is observed increasing over the time in both developed and developing society. Caesarean birth has increased noticeably over the last years especially in countries with high or middle income. The present study is based on analysis of data taken from National Family Health Survey-III (2005-06). Finding suggests that cubic and inverse cubic model are appropriate to graduate the age of female at marriage and at first birth in case of first caesarean delivery, but these curves have some shortcomings thus a mix type curve has been employed for getting better fitting.

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Recommended Citation

P. Singh, Brijesh and Dixit, Shweta (2015) "Graduating Age at First Caesarean Delivery of Female," Journal of Statistics Applications & Probability: Vol. 4: Iss. 2, Article 7.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.aaru.edu.jo/jsap/vol4/iss2/7