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Order specific fertility rates for Germany: Estimates from Perinatal Statistics for the period 2001-2008

  • 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.
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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Michaela KreyenfeldORCiD, Rembrandt Scholz, Frederik Peters, Ines Wlosnewski
Parent Title (English):Comparative population studies (CPOS)
ISSN:1869-8980
Publisher:Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung
Place of Publisher:Wiesbaden
Publication year:2010
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:207
Last Page:224
DOI:https://doi.org/10.4232/10.CPoS-2010-06en
Release Date:2015/05/18
Tag:Birth order; Eastern and Western Germany; Fertility; Germany; Perinatal Statistics
Volume:35
Issue:2
Licence of document (German):CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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