scholarly journals The Surprising Decline in the Non-Marital Fertility Rate in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Schneider ◽  
Alison Gemmill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Marital Fertility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fertility Rate ◽  
Marital Fertility Rate

scholarly journals A New Proposal for Measuring Marital Fertility in Historical Populations

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús J. Sánchez-Barricarte
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Marital Fertility ◽  
Reproductive Period ◽  
Fertility Rate ◽  
Age At Marriage ◽  
Marital Fertility Rate

In this paper, a critical analysis is made of some of the indices used in numerous historical studies on the decline of fertility. More concretely, it is demonstrated how the Total Marital Fertility Rate (TMFR) and the Ig and I’g indices of marital fertility designed by Coale (1986) not only are not good indicators of a population’s level of marital fertility, but also in some cases (for example, when there is an important delay in female mean age at marriage) can even indicate an increase in marital fertility when in reality it is decreasing. Likewise, a new index for measuring marital fertility (known as the Navarre Index) is presented which takes into account women’s average age at marriage as well as their mortality rate during their reproductive period.

scholarly journals Race Differences in Cohort Effects on Non-Marital Fertility in the United States

Social Forces ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 1449-1479 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Stockard ◽  
J. A. Gray ◽  
R. O'Brien ◽  
J. Stone
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Marital Fertility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Race Differences ◽  
Cohort Effects

ANNUAL SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS—1965

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 1063-1067
Author(s):  
Myron E. Wegman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Crude Birth Rate ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vital Statistics ◽  
Fertility Rate ◽  
Downward Trend ◽  
United States Population ◽  
First Time ◽  
Number Of Births

A CONTINUED downward trend for births, slightly upward for marriages, and about the same rate as last year for deaths characterize the provisional vital statistics of the United States for 1965 (Table 1). Despite the falling birth rate almost 2,000,000 persons were added to the United States population through the excess of births over deaths. Births in 1965 were down about 7% from 1964, bringing the total number, estimated at 3,767,000, below 4,000,000 for the first time in 12 years. The number of births was the lowest since 1951, giving a crude birth rate of 19.4 births per 1,000 population and a fertility rate of 96.7.

Recent evidence on trends and differentials in Bangladesh fertility: an update

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Amin ◽  
A. Ahmed ◽  
J. Chowdhury ◽  
M. Kabir ◽  
R. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Educational Level ◽  
Marital Fertility ◽  
Fertility Rate ◽  
Rural Residents ◽  
Educational Differences ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Fertility Data ◽  
Rural Locality ◽  
Marital Fertility Rate

SummaryA comparison of contraceptive and fertility data for 1985–91 with data for 1983 shows that fertility has continued to decline in Bangladesh, in all segments of society. The magnitude of decline varied according to educational level, region and urban–rural locality. The percentage decline in total marital fertility rate was somewhat higher among urban than rural residents; educated women showed greater declines than uneducated, increas-ing the overall educational differences in total fertility by 1991. Factors contributing to the recent decline in fertility are discussed.

Sudden Infant Death Trends in Six Metropolitan Communities, 1965-1974

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
Donald R. Peterson ◽  
Nina M. Chinn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Infant Death ◽  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Sudden Infant Death ◽  
The United States ◽  
Incidence Rates ◽  
Fertility Rate ◽  
Sudden Infant ◽  
Variable Degree ◽  
Autopsy Diagnosis

Data from six geographically dispersed metropolitan areas in the United States in which special sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) surveillance programs for detection and autopsy diagnosis existed during the period 1965 through 1974 reveal considerable diversity in overall ten-year incidence rates as well as in annual rate distribution patterns. A downward trend in SIDS incidence occurred in some areas but not in others. Non-SIDS postneonatal death rates, which were used for comparison, also decreased in some areas. Rate trends for whites and nonwhites were not consistent. During the same period, the fertility rate in the United States decreased by about a third for both whites and nonwhites. To explain the observed trends we postulate that concomitants of the fertility rate decline may have reduced the number of "high mortality risk babies" to a variable degree in different places and at different times.

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