TY - JOUR A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Scholz, Rembrandt A1 - Peters, Frederik A1 - Wlosnewski, Ines T1 - Order specific fertility rates for Germany: Estimates from Perinatal Statistics for the period 2001-2008 JF - Comparative population studies (CPOS) N2 - Until 2008, Germany’s vital statistics did not include information on the biological order of each birth. This resulted in a dearth of important demographic indicators, such as the mean age at fi rst birth and the level of childlessness. Researchers have tried to fill this gap by generating order-specifi c birth rates from survey data, and by combining survey data with vital statistics. This paper takes a different approach by using Perinatal Statistics to generate birth order-specific fertility rates for the period 2001 to 2008. Perinatal Statistics includes information on births that took place in German hospitals. Out-of-hospital births, which account for about 2 % of all births, are not included in the Perinatal Statistics. In a sensitivity analysis, we show how robust our estimates are to the inclusion of out-of-hospital births. Our general assessment is that the Perinatal Statistics is a valuable source for generating order-specific fertility rates, regardless of whether out-of-hospital births are included. KW - Birth order KW - Fertility KW - Germany KW - Eastern and Western Germany KW - Perinatal Statistics Y1 - 2010 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/frontdoor/index/index/docId/964 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-9642 SN - 1869-8980 VL - 35 IS - 2 SP - 207 EP - 224 PB - Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung CY - Wiesbaden ER -