Lifetime probability of additional births by age and parity for American women, 1935–1968: A new measurement of period fertility | Zendy

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Lifetime probability of additional births by age and parity for American women, 1935–1968: A new measurement of period fertility

Author(s) -

Chal Bin Park

Publication year - 1976

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2060417

Subject(s) - fertility , parity (physics) , demography , total fertility rate , birth rate , statistics , population , mathematics , family planning , research methodology , sociology , physics , particle physics

A new fertility measurement, probability that a woman of specified parity and age will bear a given number of births in her remaining lifetime, is proposed in this article. The measurement is a summary index of a set of age-parity-specific birth probabilities and in a particular case it is conceptually analogous to the total fertility by birth order but free from the influence of the parity distribution. Fertility of American women for the period 1935–1968 was studied by use of such lifetime probabilities. It appears that the trend of fertility of high birth orders has been parallel with that of low orders. Initiation of the recent decline in fertility depends on parity and age of woman.

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