Fertility of Migrant Women in Australia

1980 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farhat Yusuf ◽  
Gary Eckstein
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Behaviour ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Birth Registration ◽  
Country Of Birth ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Fertility Rates ◽  
Registration Data ◽  
Major Exception ◽  
Current Fertility ◽  
Migrant Groups

SummaryThis paper examines the current fertility (1971–72) of migrant women in Australia, in order to compare the fertility levels and patterns prevalent among migrants from nine selected countries with those of the Australian born women. Birth registration data have been mainly used in the analysis.Three main points emerge. Among the married women there were few differences in fertility regardless of the country of birth. A major exception was the somewhat higher fertility levels among the southern European migrants. Extramarital fertility seemed to vary substantially between different migrant groups: New Zealanders had the highest and the Italians and Greeks had the lowest levels. There were major differences in the proportion of women married among the various migrant groups; again the southern Europeans had highest proportions married. Comparison of the reproductive behaviour of migrants with their counterparts in the countries of origin showed that the southern European migrants in Australia had higher fertility rates than those prevalent in their countries of origin.

scholarly journals Indigenous fertility in Australia: updating Alan Gray

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-317
Author(s):  
Gordon A. Carmichael
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Birth Registration ◽  
Fertility Rates ◽  
Registration Data ◽  
Aboriginal Fertility ◽  
Intercensal Period ◽  
Do So

Abstract Although he was not the first scholar to investigate it, there is little question that the Ph.D. research of Alan Gray, completed in 1983, represented a landmark in the study of Indigenous fertility in Australia. Convinced that ‘Aboriginal’ fertility had fallen rapidly through the 1970s, Gray set out to document and explain the decline. Weaving through a maze of sub-optimal census data he produced a series of age-specific and total fertility rates, refined by three broad geographic location categories, for 5-year periods from 1956–1961 to 1976–1981. These he subsequently updated to also include 1981–1986 and the 10-year period 1986–1996 as new census children-ever-borne data became available. He would doubtless have extended his series further had he lived to do so. For years his fertility estimates were graphed in the annual ABS publication Births Australia as the Bureau began publishing registration-based Indigenous fertility estimates from the late 1990s, but Indigenous birth registration data and fertility estimates based thereon remain to this day problematic in several respects. This paper summarises Alan Gray’s work, extends his Indigenous fertility estimates to the 2011–2016 intercensal period, and examines the results against registration-based estimates that have been subjected to (a) regular retrospective revision (in light of data processing flaws and substantial errors of closure in intercensal Indigenous population increments), and (b) the vagaries of significant late registration, and periodic registry efforts to clear backlogs of unregistered Indigenous births.

Post-Migration Fertility in Southern Europe: Romanian and Moroccan women in Italy and Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Carella ◽  
Alberto Del Rey Poveda ◽  
Francesca Zanasi
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Behaviour ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Event History ◽  
Fertility Rates ◽  
Country Comparison ◽  
First Child ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
History Approach ◽  
Moroccan Women ◽  
Migrant Fertility

This paper seeks to analyse migrant women’s reproductive behaviour in two countries with the lowest fertility rates, namely, Italy and Spain. We assess differences in migrant fertility patterns according to country of origin by comparing the post-migration motherhood of Moroccan and Romanian women. We have used data from the “2007 National Immigrant Survey” (INE) and the ”2011-2012 Survey on Social Integration and Condition among Foreign Citizens” (ISTAT) to adopt an event-history approach to the factors that affect the birth of the first child after migration. Specifically, we focus on marital status upon arrival and on the number of previous children, controlling in turn for the women’s socioeconomic circumstances. The results show, firstly, that Moroccan women have a higher fertility rate than Romanians in both countries. Secondly, the risk of the first birth shortly after migration is higher among childless and married women, and this probability remain high even for women from Morocco with children. Thirdly a cross-country comparison reveals that the results related to childbearing patterns are similar.

Organizing women migrants: The Filipino and Cape Verdean women’s associations in Rome

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
Wendy Pojmann
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Women ◽  
Cape Verdean ◽  
Women Migrants ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Women's Associations ◽  
Women's Organizing ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Female Migrant ◽  
Migrant Groups

Migrant women’s associations in Italy did not simply emerge from informal networks. The Filipino and Cape Verdean women’s associations in Rome are examples of the results of multiple factors that contributed to the strategy of self-organization established by migrant women with the intention of empowering themselves. An awareness of their unique position as women from mostly-female migrant groups, a lack of institutional bodies prepared to assist them, and the leadership of individual women were key aspects in the formation of the first migrant women’s associations in Rome. Gender and nationality were the main components of migrant women’s organizing in the first mostly-female migrant groups. 

Non-Marital Pregnancies in Australia since 1947

1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. T. Ruzicka
Keyword(s):  
Married Women ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Fertility Rates ◽  
Live Births ◽  
The Social

SummaryIn this paper, non-marital pregnancies are defined as the sum of ex-nuptial confinements and the first nuptial confinements delivered within the first 8 months of marriage. Analysis is based on the annual statistics of live births, marriages and female non-married population as enumerated in the 1947–71 censuses. The incidence of non-marital pregnancies increased significantly in Australia between 1947 and 1971. This was found to be mainly due to rising ex-nuptial fertility rates, and, to a much lesser extent, to increased frequency of pre-marital pregnancies. A lesser proportion of pregnant non-married women were married before delivery in 1971 than in 1947. Some of the social implications are discussed.

VII.—The Fertility of Scottish Married Women, with Special Reference to the Period 1926–1935

1940 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 62-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. Barclay ◽  
W. O. Kermack
Keyword(s):  
Reasonable Agreement ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Married Women ◽  
General Effect ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Fertility Rates ◽  
Standard Rate ◽  
Straight Lines ◽  
Constant Percentage

In a previous communication (Barclay and Kermack, 1938) it has been shown that the specific legitimate fertility rates of Sweden and Denmark, viewed broadly over several decades, exhibit well-marked regularities, briefly described as conformity to a “diagonal law.” The procedure is to express the specific fertility rate, observed for any particular age-group at a certain period, as a percentage of the rate for the same age-group at a time preceding the decline of the birth-rate (“standard rate”). If now these percentages are plotted as contours on a graph, in which the abscissæ represent calendar years and the ordinates women's age, it is found that, when the age-group 15–20 is excluded, the constant percentage curves are approximately straight lines, running parallel to the diagonals in such a sense that, along any line, increase in calendar years corresponds to decrease in women's age. In Finland, the same general effect is apparent, though it is somewhat obscured by minor disturbances. It is found that, in the case of England and Wales, predictions made on the basis of the law give a reasonable agreement with estimated fertility rates calculated by the Registrar-General on the basis of census data.

scholarly journals Finding Maternal Siblings in Birth Registration Data to form a Pregnancy Spine – Data Linkage & Graph Based Methods for Unknown Cluster Sizes

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Tomlin ◽  
Shelley Gammon ◽  
Charles Morris ◽  
Charlotte O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Detection Methods ◽  
Birth Registration ◽  
Child Health Outcomes ◽  
Registration Data ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Innovative Methodology ◽  
Probabilistic Linkage ◽  
Sibling Composition ◽  
Cluster Resolution ◽  
High Degree

We have developed an innovative methodology to link maternal siblings within 2000-2005 England and Wales Birth Registration data, to form a Pregnancy Spine, a unification of all births to each unique mother. Key challenges were Blocking & Cluster resolution. To optimise geographic blocking, Internal Migration data was incorporated to map likely geographic movement of mothers between births. Following probabilistic linkage, sibling clusters were modelled as a graph and their structure optimised using community detection methods. Childhood statistics data relating to child DOB were incorporated to evaluate accuracy and remove false links. Our development has resulted in a new blocking and cluster resolution method. We developed new ways to assess sibling group accuracy, beyond traditional classifier metrics, and infer error rates.We applied our method to Registration Data used in earlier studies for QA of our methods. Using this, and other maternal sibling composition statistics, we present results showing that a high degree of accuracy was obtained for standard and new evaluation metrics. These methods will improve other linkage projects linking unknown clusters sizes/multiple datasets, or longer time period longitudinal linkage. To this Spine, researchers can append and link other data sources to answer questions about maternal and child health outcomes.

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