Open AccessNew Estimates of Aboriginal Fertility, 1966-1971 to 1996-2001
Author(s) -
Bali Ram
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
canadian studies in population
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.157
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1927-629X
pISSN - 0380-1489
DOI - 10.25336/p6c31t
Subject(s) - census , fertility , metis , demography , total fertility rate , geography , population , birth rate , research methodology , family planning , sociology , world wide web , computer science
Using census data on children in families, this paper estimates various fertilitymeasures for the total aboriginal population and four specific groups, NorthAmerican Indians, Registered Indians, Metis, and Inuit. The “own-children”procedure is used for deriving the number of births by the age of the motherduring specific years preceding the census. The major focus of the paper is onthe trends of total fertility rate and the convergence of age patterns betweenvarious subgroups over the past 30 years. Strengths and limitations of themethod are also discussed.