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Measuring change and continuity in parity distributions

Author(s) -

Thomas W. Pullum,

Lucky M. Tedrow,

Jerald R. Herting

Publication year - 1989

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2061608

Subject(s) - parity (physics) , fertility , logistic regression , statistics , econometrics , mathematics , logit , demography , population , physics , sociology , particle physics

Procedures are developed to allocate the change in mean fertility to the change in specific parities or groups of parities. One procedure uses the proportion at each parity and another uses parity progression ratios. Both are based on the delta method for approximating change in a function of several variables. Drawing on an analogy to survival in a life table, the relational logit model is applied to parity progression. This method allows several parity distributions to be synthesized and to have differences summarized with two parameters. The three procedures are applied to successive cohorts of white U.S. women who completed their childbearing between 1920 and 1980.

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