Identifying prenuptial births from family pedigrees using record linkage.

Objectives Demographers are interested in the degree to which marriage is driven by prenuptial pregnancy within particular communities. To help answer this question, we present a novel method which links marriage certificates to birth certificates, where the birth-mother is the marriage-bride, cons...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nishadi Kirelle, Peter Christen, Garrett Eilidh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Swansea University 2022-08-01
Series:International Journal of Population Data Science
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Online Access:https://ijpds.org/article/view/1784