Postwar Fertility Trends and Differentials in the United States
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1977
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Ronald R. Rindfuss, James A. Sweet
- Editor: H. H. Winsborough
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 4 5 4 2 - 3
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 5 8 9 2 5 0 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 7 0 1 5 - 9
Postwar Fertility Trends and Differentials in the United States examines fertility trends and levels within social and economic subgroups in the United States. The major portion of… Read more
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Request a sales quotePostwar Fertility Trends and Differentials in the United States examines fertility trends and levels within social and economic subgroups in the United States. The major portion of the book deals with the time period 1945-1969; the last chapter extends the findings through the first half of the 1970s. The study is based on data made available by the release of the 1-in-a-100 Public Use Samples from the 1960 and 1970 United States Censuses. This book is the first comprehensive study of socioeconomic fertility trends and differentials to use these Public Use Samples. The book opens with a chapter that presents annual estimates of age-specific fertility rates by educational attainment of women and by race for the period 1945-1969. Separate chapters then examine the pattern of differentials in recent fertility in the late 1950s and the late 1960s for the U.S. population as a whole; changing fertility during the period 1955-1969; and differentials in fertility within and among members of various racial and ethnic minorities. Subsequent chapters deal with rural fertility trends and differentials; the effect of migration on fertility; and the similarity of all social and economic groups with respect to fertility trends.
Preface1 Introduction Historical and Contemporary Perspective Methodological Perspective Overview of the Study2 Measurement: Sources, Opportunities, and Limitations Own-Children Data Data Requirements Comparisons with Vital Registration Data Comparisons with Birth History Data Individual and Aggregate Measures Summary3 Trends in Fertility: 1945-1969 Education and the Estimation of Annual Fertility Rates Pervasiveness Trends within Education Groups Trends within Racial and Education Groups Fertility Patterns: Concept and Measurement Trends in Fertility Patterns Summary4 Differentials: Persistence and Change Poverty and Fertility Differentials within the Total Population Differentials in Trends: Urban Whites Summary5 Fertility Trends among Minority Groups Aggregate Trends: 1955-1969 Annual Rates and Recent Marital Fertility Changing Status and Own-Children Trend Estimates Fertility Declines within Two High-Fertility Groups Fertility Declines within the Southern Urban Black and the Non-Southern Black Population Minority Status and Fertility Summary6 Fertility Differentials within Minority Groups Differentials within Three High-Fertility Groups Differentials within the Urban Black Population Differentials within Two Low-Fertility Populations Differentials within the Puerto Rican Population Differences in the Timing of Fertility Summary7 Rural Fertility Trends and Differentials Definitions of "Rural" and "Urban" Migration and Fertility Rate Estimates Aggregate Trends Differential Fertility Declines within the Farm Population: 1960-1970 Trends in the Pattern of Fertility Current Differentials Rural/Urban Differences in the Age Patterns of Fertility Summary8 Fertility and Migration: The Case of Puerto Rico Measuring Migration Status Other Methodological Concerns Migration and Current Fertility Migration and Children Ever Born Knowledge of English and Current Fertility Summary9 Similarity and Diversity: Some Extensions and Implications Similarity and Diversity in the 1970s Some ImplicationsAppendix A Urban White Recent Marital Fertility DifferentialsAppendix B Stability of Racial Estimates of Annual Fertility RatesAppendix C Differentials in Recent Marital Fertility within Various Racial and Ethnic Groups: 1960Appendix D Post-1970 Fertility Trends and Differentials within the Black PopulationReferencesIndex
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1977
- No. of pages (eBook): 236
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483245423
- Hardback ISBN: 9780125892506
- eBook ISBN: 9781483270159
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