TY - RPRT A1 - Nieberg, Valeria A1 - Krapf, Sandra A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Wolf, Katharina T1 - Construction of a publication database of the scientific journal "Demography": how to identify author’s gender and field of publication N2 - This Technical Report describes a database that has been established for the research project “Gendered authorship and demographic research – An analysis of 50 years of Demography”. In this project, we have investigated whether gender determines field of publication. Our analysis was based on all papers published in “Demography” which is the flagship journal of the Population of America Association (PAA) and currently celebrates its 50th anniversary. We scrutinized all issues of „Demography” and compiled information on title, topic as well as gender of all authors. This Technical Report describes how we set up the resulting database. The Report is accompanied by the respective database (in STATA-format, version 13.0). (Keywords: Demography, gender, publication) Y1 - 2014 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Krapf, Sandra A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela T1 - Fertility assessment with the Own-Children Method: a validation with data from the German Mikrozensus N2 - The German Mikrozensus is a data set that is frequently used to study fertility behavior. With its large sample size, the dataset also offers the opportunity to investigate childbearing among population subgroups, such as particular migrant groups. Because birth histories are not surveyed in the Mikrozensus, scholars have frequently employed the Own-Children Method (OCM) to generate fertility schedules from this data. The OCM draws on information on the number and ages of the co-residential children in order to estimate the fertility schedule of women. It is clear that this method leads to an underestimation of fertility, because children do not necessarily live with their biological mother. It is also clear that the bias is stronger for older women, because children may have left parental home. In the past, it was not possible to assess the bias. With the Mikrozensus 2008, we are able to validate the OCM by relying on respondent’s own report on the total number of children. We furthermore examine whether the OCM leads to worse estimates for migrants and non-migrants. The results show that the OCM provides reasonable fertility estimates for women in western Germany up to age 40, irrespective of migrant background. For eastern Germany, there is a stronger bias at later ages than in western Germany. This relates to the early age at childbirth in this region and the more diverse family structures. KW - Germany, fertility, migration, own children data Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Krapf, Sandra T1 - Fertility assessment with the Own-Children Method: a validation with data from the German Mikrozensus T2 - MPIDR Technical Report TR-2015-003 N2 - The German Mikrozensus is a data set that is frequently used to study fertility behavior. With its large sample size, the dataset also offers the opportunity to investigate childbearing among population subgroups, such as particular migrant groups. Because birth histories are not surveyed in the Mikrozensus, scholars have frequently employed the Own-Children Method (OCM) to generate fertility schedules from this data. The OCM draws on information on the number and ages of the co-residential children in order to estimate the fertility schedule of women. It is clear that this method leads to an underestimation of fertility, because children do not necessarily live with their biological mother. It is also clear that the bias is stronger for older women, because children may have left parental home. In the past, it was not possible to assess the bias. With the Mikrozensus 2008, we are able to validate the OCM by relying on respondent’s own report on the total number of children. We furthermore examine whether the OCM leads to worse estimates for migrants and non-migrants. The results show that the OCM provides reasonable fertility estimates for women in western Germany up to age 40, irrespective of migrant background. For eastern Germany, there is a stronger bias at later ages than in western Germany. This relates to the early age at childbirth in this region and the more diverse family structures. KW - Germany, fertility, migration, own children data Y1 - 2015 N1 - Free online Access / Freier online Zugriff: http://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/technicalreports/tr-2015-003.pdf PB - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research CY - Rostock ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Krapf, Sandra A1 - Wolf, Katharina T1 - Gendered Authorship and Demographic Research – An Analysis of 50 Years of Demography JF - Demography N2 - Demography, the official journal of the Population Association of America, has been given the highest rating among demographic journals by the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). Our aim here is to investigate the development of research subfields and female authorship in Demography over the last 50 years. We find that female authorship in Demography has risen considerably since the 1980s and that currently a woman is about as likely as a man to be the sole or the first author of a paper published in the journal. However, we find some differences by subfield. Women seem to be overrepresented in the “family and household” research subfield but underrepresented in the “mortality and health” and “data and methods” categories. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0482-x VL - 53 IS - 4 SP - 1169 EP - 1184 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krapf, Sandra A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Wolf, Katharina T1 - Gendered Authorship and Demographic Research – An Analysis of 50 Years of Demography JF - Demography N2 - Demography, the official journal of the Population Association of America, has been given the highest rating among demographic journals by the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). Our aim here is to investigate the development of research subfields and female authorship in Demography over the last 50 years. We find that female authorship in Demography has risen considerably since the 1980s and that currently a woman is about as likely as a man to be the sole or the first author of a paper published in the journal. However, we find some differences by subfield. Women seem to be overrepresented in the “family and household” research subfield but underrepresented in the “mortality and health” and “data and methods” categories. KW - Demography KW - Publication practices KW - Female authorship KW - Gender KW - Bibliometrics Y1 - 2016 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-20875 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0482-x SN - 1533-7790 VL - 53 IS - 4 SP - 1169 EP - 1184 ER -