An Extension of the Conventional TFR

Une extension de l'indicateur conjoncturel de fécondité

Jan M. Hoem () and Cornelia Mureşan
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Jan M. Hoem: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Cornelia Mureşan: Babes-Bolyai University

European Journal of Population, 2011, vol. 27, issue 4, No 1, 389-402

Abstract: Abstract The period-based total fertility rate is probably the most commonly used single measure of a population’s fertility level, but it has the disadvantage that it only controls for the population’s age distribution and not for any other subdividing feature, such as the parity distribution, ethnic composition, or educational attainment. This may lead the TFR to change because the population composition changes, even when the underlying fertility remains constant in each population sub-group. In the present contribution, we use elementary event-history methods to show how one can easily control the TFR against a change in the population’s distribution across any selected subdivision. We use the data of the Romanian Gender and Generations Survey of 2005 to illustrate how this can be done.

Keywords: Total fertility rate; First; second; third births; Event history analysis; Romania; Indicateur conjoncturel de fécondité; Première-seconde-troisième naissance; Analyse biographique; Roumanie (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/s10680-011-9247-9

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