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Adapting the Own Children Method to allow comparison of fertility between populations with different marriage regimes

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  • Alice Reid
  • Hannaliis Jaadla
  • Eilidh Garrett
  • Kevin Schürer

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The Own Children Method (OCM) is an indirect procedure for deriving age-specific fertility rates and total fertility from children living with their mothers at a census or survey. The method was designed primarily for the calculation of overall fertility, although there are variants that allow the calculation of marital fertility. In this paper we argue that the standard variants for calculating marital fertility can produce misleading results and require strong assumptions, particularly when applied to social or spatial subgroups. We present two new variants of the method for calculating marital fertility: the first of these allows for the presence of non-marital fertility and the second also permits the more robust calculation of rates for social subgroups of the population. We illustrate and test these using full-count census data for England and Wales in 1911.

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  • Alice Reid & Hannaliis Jaadla & Eilidh Garrett & Kevin Schürer, 2020. "Adapting the Own Children Method to allow comparison of fertility between populations with different marriage regimes," Population Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 74(2), pages 197-218, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpstxx:v:74:y:2020:i:2:p:197-218
    DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2019.1630563
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    1. Connor, Dylan, 2021. "In the name of the father? Fertility, religion and child naming in the demographic transition," SocArXiv jndqu, Center for Open Science.
    2. Juliana Jaramillo-Echeverri, 2023. "La transición de la fecundidad en Colombia: nueva evidencia regional," Cuadernos de Historia Económica 60, Banco de la Republica de Colombia.

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