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. 2020 Nov 30;32(1):27–35. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001296

TABLE 2.

Estimated Median TTP and Probability of Not Having Conceived Within 1 Year (So-called infertility) for All 15 Test Data Sets, Based on Fitting Yamaguchi Distributions to the Current Durations Censored at 36 Months

Number Median TTP (Months) Estimated Infertility (%) % Pregnant by Duration of Cohabitation
Subjective allocation of histograms Acceptable Irregular Flat Acceptable Irregular Flat Acceptable Irregular Flat
Months cohabitating 0–2 3–5 0–2 3–5 0–2 3–5
Total Uncens at 36 months
Benin 2006 250 139 8.1 0.38 23.1 51.2
Colombia 2009a 452 168 33.6 0.80 24.7 39.4
Colombia 2016 316 114 ≥36 0.85 30.4 36.3
Dominican Republic 2002 243 134 17.4 0.56 23.7 34.1
Dominican Republic 2007 245 116 27.1 0.75 29.4 27.0
Indonesia 2002 1005 517 5.0 0.28 15.1 45.3
Indonesia 2007 1076 562 4.6 0.26 17.3 46.8
Indonesia 2012a 1183 645 4.8 0.28 19.8 46.2
Nigeria 2008a 670 397 20.1 0.69 37.3 40.8
Nigeria 2013 756 432 5.1 0.28 21.3 45.5
Phillipines 2003 315 139 10.5 0.44 42.2 52.7
Phillipines 2008 271 133 3.6 0.24 25.5 48.4
Senegal 2005 234 112 8.5 0.41 0.0 33.3
Senegal 2010 248 120 12.5 0.51 4.8 34.5
Tanzania 2015 211 151 13.0 0.55 25.0 41.0

Also displayed: % pregnant by duration of cohabitation (data from DHS).

No correction for delayed pregnancy recognition has been attempted.

aExamples displayed as Figures 35.

DHS indicates Demographic and Health Surveys; TTP, times to pregnancy.