Indirect estimates of total fertility rate using child woman/ratio: a comparison with the Bogue-Palmore method.

Indirect estimation methodologies of the total fertility rate (TFR) have a long history within demography and have provided important techniques applied demographers can use when data is sparse or lacking. However new methodologies for approximating the total fertility rate have not been proposed in...

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Main Authors: Matt Hauer, Jack Baker, Warren Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3691185?pdf=render