Research Article
Fertility Behaviour and Effect of Son Preference among the Muslims of Manipur, India
Table 1
Fertility of Muslim women based on age at menarche.
| Age at menarche (year) | Woman (%) | Mean conception | Mean live birth |
| 9 | 0.19 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 10 | 1.56 | 3.87 | 2.88 | 11 | 4.88 | 4.00 | 3.20 | 12 | 38.08 | 3.92 | 3.28 | 13 | 30.27 | 3.88 | 3.33 | 14 | 14.06 | 4.60 | 3.76 | 15 | 8.98 | 3.35 | 2.72 | 16 | 0.98 | 3.20 | 2.60 | 17 | 0.98 | 2.80 | 3.20 |
| Total | 100 | 3.95 | 3.29 |
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