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A simple measure of fertility control

Author(s) -

Barbara A. Anderson,

Brian D. Silver

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2061822

Subject(s) - fertility , measure (data warehouse) , simple (philosophy) , population control , control (management) , birth control , statistics , population , demography , computer science , mathematics , research methodology , family planning , sociology , artificial intelligence , data mining , philosophy , epistemology

We describe a simple measure of fertility control: the proportion of all births from the age-specific fertility schedule that occurs among women by age 35. This measure has broad applicability because it does not require information on marital fertility rates. When both the proportion of births by age 35 and the most commonly used measure of fertility control, m, are calculated for a population over time, they are correlated very highly. Because of increasing levels of nonmarital fertility in several developed countries, measures of fertility control that are based on marital fertility are less appropriate now than in the past.

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