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Components Of Period Fertility in England and Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

S. M. Farid
S. M. Farid
Affiliation:
Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Somerset House, Strand, London
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Summary

The method of decomposition is applied to evaluate the role played by fertility and age composition of women at risk in annual fluctuations in the number of legitimate live births in England and Wales during the period 1956–70. The analysis shows that the upward trend in the numbers of births during the period 1956–64 was mainly due to a rise in the level of period fertility and that the downward trend thereafter has been due to a declining trend in fertility alone. The analysis also shows that the size and age distribution of women at risk have strongly affected the size of birth cohorts born since 1964. Such effects have been in the direction of increasing the numbers of births to women under 25 years of age in a period of falling fertility.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 1974 , pp. 59 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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