Back to Search
Start Over
Recent European fertility patterns: Fitting curves to ‘distorted’ distributions
- Source :
- Population Studies. 53:317-329
- Publication Year :
- 1999
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 1999.
-
Abstract
- Recent patterns of fertility in Europe show marked differences between countries. Recent United Kingdom and Irish fertility curves show 'distortions' in terms of a 'bulge' in early age fertility, distinct from the smoother curves of other European countries. These patterns may not be adequately described by mathematical functions used by previous studies to model fertility curves. A mixture model with two component distributions may be more appropriate. The suitability of the simple and mixture Hadwiger functions is examined in relation to the fertility curves of a number of European countries. While the simple Hadwiger model fits recent period age-specific fertility distributions for some countries, others which display a 'bulge' in early age fertility distributions for some countries, others which display a 'bulg' in early age fertility require a mixture Hadwiger model. Some of the parameters of the Hadwiger models appear to be related to familiar demographic indices. The simple and mixture Hadwiger models appear useful in describing and comparing fertility patterns across European countries.
- Subjects :
- History
education.field_of_study
Models, Statistical
Total fertility rate
media_common.quotation_subject
Population
Demographic transition
Fertility
History, 20th Century
Mixture model
Birth rate
Europe
Vital Statistics
Econometrics
Humans
Age-Specific Fertility Rate
education
Demography
media_common
Mathematics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14774747 and 00324728
- Volume :
- 53
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Population Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d8478f0317a17f5ebc9b5451d04d78e1