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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">4250</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.132310</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Impact of Female__ampersandsign#39;s Height on Waiting Time to the First Conception: A Semi Parametric Approach&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Tiwari</surname><given-names>A. K.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Singh</surname><given-names>Brijesh P.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mishra</surname><given-names>Shivam</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>1</day><month>12</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>3)</volume><issue/><fpage>60</fpage><lpage>68</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: The waiting time to the first conception plays a significant role in the determination of the fertility level of the society. It is not possible to have a direct observation of waiting time, so the waiting time is obtained from birth interval data. It holds an important place in infertility studies because the first birth interval is free from post-partum amenorrhea (PPA) and there is less chance to use any contraception. In past studies, it has been identified that different factors contribute to explaining the length of the first birth interval. Objective: In this paper, an attempt has been done to know the impact of a new factor i.e. female__ampersandsignrsquo;s height on waiting time to the first conception. Material __ampersandsignamp; Methods: Cox__ampersandsignrsquo;s proportional hazard model is used for this analysis. The data has been taken from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) of Uttar Pradesh. Results: It has been observed that along with other factors, there is a significant impact of females__ampersandsignrsquo; height on waiting time to the first conception. The female has a height of more than 150.0 cm is found significantly 6 percent more likely to get conception earlier than the female having a height less than or equal to 150.0 cm.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Waiting time to conception</kwd><kwd> First birth interval</kwd><kwd> Female height</kwd><kwd> Demographic and socioeconomic factors</kwd><kwd> NFHS</kwd><kwd> Cox’s  proportional hazard</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
