Relationships between total and birth order-specific fertility indicators: Application to Spain for the 1898-1970 cohorts

Daniel Devolder

doi:10.3917/popu.1801.0063

Relationships between total and birth order-specific fertility indicators: Application to Spain for the 1898-1970 cohorts

Daniel Devolder

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© 2018 Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques.All Rights Reserved. This article analyses the general relationships between general fertility indices and parity progression ratios by birth order. The former refer to the entire population whereas the latter concern persons who have had the same number of children. We establish a relationship between these two types of indicators by defining a mean parity progression ratio (PPR). This allows us to obtain a unified scale to represent these two types of indicators in a single graph. This mean probability can also be used to calculate fertility with small samples. Applications to different types of data, by cohort and by year, are presented. A decomposition of variations in general fertility indices as a function of variations in PPRs, including mean PPR, is also proposed. These relationships and methods are applied to the fertility of Spanish cohorts born between 1898 and 1970.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	63-90
Journal	Population
Volume	73
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3917/popu.1801.0063
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018

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