Rindfuss / Sweet / Winsborough Postwar Fertility Trends and Differentials in the United States

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-7015-9
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Web PDF

Postwar Fertility Trends and Differentials in the United States examines fertility trends and levels within social and economic subgroups in the United States. The major portion of the book deals with the time period 1945-1969; the last chapter extends the findings through the first half of the 1970s. The study is based on data made available by the release of the 1-in-a-100 Public Use Samples from the 1960 and 1970 United States Censuses. This book is the first comprehensive study of socioeconomic fertility trends and differentials to use these Public Use Samples. The book opens with a chapter that presents annual estimates of age-specific fertility rates by educational attainment of women and by race for the period 1945-1969. Separate chapters then examine the pattern of differentials in recent fertility in the late 1950s and the late 1960s for the U.S. population as a whole; changing fertility during the period 1955-1969; and differentials in fertility within and among members of various racial and ethnic minorities. Subsequent chapters deal with rural fertility trends and differentials; the effect of migration on fertility; and the similarity of all social and economic groups with respect to fertility trends.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rindfuss, Ronald R.

Sweet, James A.

Winsborough, H. H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Postwar Fertility Trends and Differentials in the United States;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Preface;10
6;Chapter 1. Introduction;12
6.1;HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE;13
6.2;METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE;16
6.3;OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY;17
7;Chapter 2. Measurement: Sources, Opportunities, and Limitations;20
7.1;OWN-CHILDREN DATA;20
7.2;DATA REQUIREMENTS;22
7.3;COMPARISONS WITH VITAL REGISTRATION DATA;24
7.4;COMPARISONS WITH BIRTH HISTORY DATA;36
7.5;INDIVIDUAL AND AGGREGATE MEASURES;40
7.6;SUMMARY;42
8;Chapter 3. Trends in Fertility: 1945–1969;44
8.1;EDUCATION AND THE ESTIMATION OF ANNUAL FERTILITY RATES;44
8.2;PERVASIVENESS;49
8.3;TRENDS WITHIN EDUCATION GROUPS;49
8.4;TRENDS WITHIN RACIAL AND EDUCATION GROUPS;55
8.5;FERTILITY PATTERNS: CONCEPT AND MEASUREMENT;60
8.6;TRENDS IN FERTILITY PATTERNS;62
8.7;SUMMARY;69
9;Chapter 4. Differentials: Persistence and Change;72
9.1;POVERTY AND FERTILITY;73
9.2;DIFFERENTIALS WITHIN THE TOTAL POPULATION;74
9.3;DIFFERENTIALS IN TRENDS: URBAN WHITES;97
9.4;SUMMARY;98
10;Chapter 5. Fertility Trends among Minority Groups;100
10.1;AGGREGATE TRENDS: 1955–1969;100
10.2;ANNUAL RATES AND RECENT MARITAL FERTILITY;108
10.3;CHANGING STATUS AND OWN-CHILDREN TREND ESTIMATES;111
10.4;FERTILITY DECLINES WITHIN TWO HIGH-FERTILITY GROUPS;114
10.5;FERTILITY DECLINES WITHIN THE SOUTHERN URBAN BLACK AND THE NON-SOUTHERN BLACK POPULATION;121
10.6;MINORITY STATUS AND FERTILITY;123
10.7;SUMMARY;126
11;Chapter 6. Fertility Differentials within Minority Groups;128
11.1;DIFFERENTIALS WITHIN THREE HIGH-FERTILITY GROUPS;128
11.2;DIFFERENTIALS WITHIN THE URBAN BLACK POPULATION;137
11.3;DIFFERENTIALS WITHIN TWO LOW-FERTILITY POPULATIONS;144
11.4;DIFFERENTIALS WITHIN THE PUERTO RICAN POPULATION;148
11.5;DIFFERENCES IN THE TIMING OF FERTILITY;150
11.6;SUMMARY;159
12;Chapter 7. Rural Fertility Trends and Differentials;162
12.1;DEFINITIONS OF "RURAL" AND "URBAN";162
12.2;MIGRATION AND FERTILITY RATE ESTIMATES;165
12.3;AGGREGATE TRENDS;166
12.4;DIFFERENTIAL FERTILITY DECLINES WITHIN THE FARM POPULATION: 1960–1970;171
12.5;TRENDS IN THE PATTERN OF FERTILITY;175
12.6;CURRENT DIFFERENTIALS;177
12.7;RURAL/URBAN DIFFERENCES IN THE AGE PATTERNS OF FERTILITY;180
12.8;SUMMARY;183
13;Chapter 8. Fertility and Migration: The Case of Puerto Rico;184
13.1;MEASURING MIGRATION STATUS;186
13.2;OTHER METHODOLOGICAL CONCERNS;187
13.3;MIGRATION AND CURRENT FERTILITY;188
13.4;MIGRATION AND CHILDREN EVER BORN;191
13.5;KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLISH AND CURRENT FERTILITY;193
13.6;SUMMARY;194
14;Chapter 9. Similarity and Diversity: Some Extensions and Implications;196
14.1;SIMILARITY AND DIVERSITY IN THE 1970s;197
14.2;SOME IMPLICATIONS;202
15;Appendix A: Urban White Recent Marital Fertility Differentials;206
16;Appendix B: Stability of Racial Estimates of Annual Fertility Rates;210
17;Appendix C: Differentials in Recent Marital Fertility within Various Racial and Ethnic Groups: 1960;214
18;Appendix D: Post-1970 Fertility Trends and Differentials within the Black Population;220
19;References;224
20;Index;232