On the impossibility of inferring cohort fertility measures from period fertility measures
A particularly important struggle faced by demographic analysts is, how to arrive at statements about family formation processes from a cohort perspective from data that are essentially collected on an annual basis. The present paper is concerned with this struggle, mostly restricted to the case of...
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| Language: | English |
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2001-09-01
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| Series: | Demographic Research |
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| Online Access: | http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol5/2/ |