Open AccessFertility modelling
Author(s) -
Mare Vähi
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
papers on anthropology/papers on anthropology.
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1736-7646
pISSN - 1406-0140
DOI - 10.12697/poa.2017.26.1.09
Subject(s) - fertility , estonian , econometrics , demography , economics , population , sociology , linguistics , philosophy
In order to describe age-specific fertility curves, different theoretical approaches are employed. By modelling a time-variant fertility curve, it is possible to forecast reproductive behaviour of Estonian women in the future. The approach provided here is a novel way to forecast fertility.