Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-mp689 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-16T14:23:41.977Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

THE TREND IN AGE AT MENARCHE IN INDONESIA: BIRTH COHORTS 1944–1988

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2014

KITAE SOHN
KITAE SOHN*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea
*
1Email: ksohn@kookmin.ac.kr
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Summary

Employing the Indonesian Family Life Survey, this paper depicts the trend in age at menarche in Indonesia for women born in 1944–1988. Mean age at menarche decreased from 14.39 years for birth year 1944 to 13.18 years for birth year 1988. Subsequently, this trend is related to the improvement in material conditions, measured by GDP per capita in childhood. The OLS results indicate that this decrease is largely explained by the improvement in material conditions. If age at menarche is considered an indicator of biological standard of living, these results suggest that the improvement in material conditions during the period converted to an improvement in biological standard of living.

Type
Short Report
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , May 2015 , pp. 407 - 412
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Clavel-Chapelon, F. & The E3N-EPIC Group (2002) Evolution of age at menarche and at onset of regular cycling in a large cohort of French women. Human Reproduction 17, 228–232.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in Breast Cancer (2012) Menarche, menopause, and breast cancer risk: individual participant meta-analysis, including 118964 women with breast cancer from 117 epidemiological studies. Lancet Oncology 13, 1141–1151.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Graham, M. J., Larsen, U. & Xu, X. (1999) Secular trend in age at menarche in China: a case study of two rural counties in Anhui province. Journal of Biosocial Science 31, 257–267.Google Scholar
Komlos, J. & Baten, J. (2004) Looking backward and looking forward: anthropometric research and the development of social science history. Social Science History 28, 191–210.Google Scholar
Moulton, B. R. (1990). An illustration of a pitfall in estimating the effects of aggregate variables on micro units. Review of Economics and Statistics 72, 334–338.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Must, A., Phillips, S. M., Naumova, E. N., Blum, M., Harris, S., Dawson-Hughes, B. & Rand, W. M. (2002) Recall of early menstrual history and menarcheal body size: after 30 years, how well do women remember? American Journal of Epidemiology 155, 672–679.Google Scholar
Onland-Moret, N. C., Peeters, P. H. M., van Gils, C. H., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Key, T., Tjønneland, A.et al. (2005) Age at menarche in relation to adult height the EPIC study. American Journal of Epidemiology 162, 623–632.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Prentice, S., Fulford, A. J., Jarjou, L. M. A., Goldberg, G. R. & Prentice, A. (2010) Evidence for a downward secular trend in age of menarche in a rural Gambian population. Annals of Human Biology 37, 717–721.Google Scholar
Sohn, K. (2014a) Age and size at maturity in Indonesian women: a norm of reaction? American Journal of Human Biology doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22571Google Scholar
Sohn, K. (2014b) A note on the effects of education on youth smoking in a developing country. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy 19(1), 66–73.Google Scholar
Sohn, K. (2014c) Sufficiently good measures of obesity: the case of a developing country. Journal of Biosocial Science doi: 10.1017/S0021932013000692CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sohn, K. (2014d) The height premium in Indonesia. Economics and Human Biology doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2013.12.011Google Scholar
Sohn, K. (2014e) Job strenuousness and obesity: the case of a developing country. Journal of Development Studies doi: 10.1080/00220388.2014.925543CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thomas, F., Renaud, F., Benefice, E., De Meeus, T. & Guegan, J-F. (2001) International variability of ages at menarche and menopause: patterns and main determinants. Human Biology 73, 271–290.Google Scholar
Van der Eng, P. (2010) The sources of long-term economic growth in Indonesia, 1880–2008. Explorations in Economic History 47, 294–309.Google Scholar