eprintid: 10160373
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datestamp: 2022-11-25 11:16:40
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creators_name: Pelikh, Alina
creators_name: Remes, Hanna
creators_name: Metsä-Simola, Niina
creators_name: Goisis, Alice
title: Partnership trajectories preceding medically assisted reproduction
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J81
divisions: K27
keywords: medically assisted reproduction, partnership histories, sequence analysis, subfertility
note: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
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abstract: The number of people who undergo medically assisted reproduction (MAR) to conceive has increased considerably in recent decades. However, existing research into the demographics and the partnership histories of this growing subgroup is limited. Using unique data from Finnish population registers on nulliparous women born in Finland in 1971–77 (n = 21,129; ∼10 per cent of all women) who had undergone MAR treatment, we created longitudinal partnership histories from age 16 until first MAR treatment. We identified six typical partnership trajectories and used relative frequency sequence plots to investigate heterogeneity in partnership transitions within and between these groups. The majority of women (60.7 per cent) underwent MAR with their first partner, followed by women who underwent MAR in a second (21.5 per cent) or higher-order partnership (7.1 per cent), while 10.7 per cent underwent MAR without a partner. On average, women undergoing MAR were relatively young (with around half starting treatment before age 30) and were highly educated with high incomes.
date: 2023-03-01
date_type: published
publisher: Taylor & Francis
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2023.2215213
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1990921
doi: 10.1080/00324728.2023.2215213
lyricists_name: Pelikh, Alina
lyricists_id: APELI39
actors_name: Pelikh, Alina
actors_id: APELI39
actors_role: owner
funding_acknowledgements: 803959 [European Research Council]
full_text_status: public
publication: Population Studies
issn: 0032-4728
citation:        Pelikh, Alina;    Remes, Hanna;    Metsä-Simola, Niina;    Goisis, Alice;      (2023)    Partnership trajectories preceding medically assisted reproduction.                   Population Studies        10.1080/00324728.2023.2215213 <https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2023.2215213>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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