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Predictors of fecundability and conception waits among the Dogon of Mali

dc.contributor.authorStrassmann, Beverly I.en_US
dc.contributor.authorWarner, John H.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2006-04-28T16:19:10Z
dc.date.available2006-04-28T16:19:10Z
dc.date.issued1998-02en_US
dc.identifier.citationStrassmann, Beverly I.; Warner, John H. (1998)."Predictors of fecundability and conception waits among the Dogon of Mali." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 105(2): 167-184. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/37683>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0002-9483en_US
dc.identifier.issn1096-8644en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/37683
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=9511912&dopt=citationen_US
dc.description.abstractSurprisingly little is known about the mechanisms that underlie variation in female fertility in humans. Data on this topic are nonetheless vital to a number of pragmatic and theoretical enterprises, including population planning, infertility treatment and prevention, and evolutionary ecology. Here we study female fertility by focusing on one component of the interbirth interval: the waiting time to conception during menstrual cycling. Our study population is a Dogon village of 460 people in Mali, West Africa. This population is pronatalist and noncontracepting. In accordance with animist beliefs, the women spend five nights sleeping at a menstrual hut during menses. By censusing the women present at the menstrual huts in the study village on each of 736 consecutive nights, we were able to monitor women's conception waits prospectively. Hormonal profiles confirm the accuracy of the data on conception waits obtained from the menstrual hut census (Strassmann [1996], Behavioral Ecology 7: 304–315). Using survival analysis, we identified significant predictors of the waiting time to conception: wife's age (years), husband's age (<35, 35–49, >49 years), marital duration (years), gravidity (number of prior pregnancies), and breast-feeding status. Additional variables were not significant, including duration of postpartum amenorrhea, sex of the last child, nutritional status, economic status, polygyny, and marital status (fiancÉe vs. married). We fit both continuous and discrete time survival models, but the former appeared to be a better choice for these data. Am J Phys Anthropol 105:167–184, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.en_US
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dc.publisherWiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Companyen_US
dc.subject.otherLife and Medical Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.otherAnthropologyen_US
dc.titlePredictors of fecundability and conception waits among the Dogon of Malien_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.rights.robotsIndexNoFollowen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelAnthropologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumDepartment of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 ; Department of Anthropology, 1020 LSA Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109en_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumDepartment of Statistics and Center for Statistical Consultation and Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109en_US
dc.identifier.pmid9511912en_US
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dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199802)105:2<167::AID-AJPA5>3.0.CO;2-Sen_US
dc.identifier.sourceAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropologyen_US
dc.owningcollnameInterdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed


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