eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Public Health Research 2327-6703 2013-06-15 1 1 140 145 10.12691/ajphr-1-6-3 AJPHR2013163 article Ahbab Mohammad Fazle Rabbi amfrabbi@hotmail.com 1 Department of Applied Science Bangladesh University of Textiles, Dhaka, Bangladesh This work focuses on Bangladesh, a country where population is one of the major problem but fertility rates decline in the last few decades sharply. The progression from first to second birth is a crucial component in fertility change; for this reason, the study aims at analyzing the second-birth intensities of Bangladesh. Proportional hazards models have been applied to the 2007 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey from the view of mother¡¯s employment status and household decision-making autonomy. The obtained results suggest, for few factors like mothers education level, employment status and mass media exposure status, the parity transition time varied between non-empowered, moderately empowered and highly empowered mothers while determinants of birth interval suggest, employment status is a significant differential for timing of second parity. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajphr/1/6/3/ajphr-1-6-3.pdf fertility empowerment Bangladesh