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Measuring change and continuity in parity distributions

Year: 1989

Type: article

Abstract: Procedures are developed to allocate the change in mean fertility to the change in specific parities or groups of parities. One procedure uses the proportion at each parity and another uses parity progression ratios. Both are based on the delta method for approximating change in a function of several variables. Drawing on an analogy to survival in a life table, the relational logit model is applied to parity progression. This method allows several parity distributions to be synthesized and to have differences summarized with two parameters. The three procedures are applied to successive cohorts of white U.S. women who completed their childbearing between 1920 and 1980.

Source: Demography

DOI: 10.2307/2061608

Authors: Thomas W. Pullum, Lucky M. Tedrow, Jerald R. Herting

Institutions: The University of Texas at Austin, Western Washington University, Stanford University

Language: English

Topic: Family Dynamics and Relationships

Subfield: Demography

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: University of Washington, Australian National University, U.S. Public Health Service, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development