Another Look at Coale’s Indices of Fertility, If and Ig
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Published:2001
Issue:4
Volume:25
Page:589-608
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ISSN:0145-5532
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Container-title:Social Science History
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Social Science History
Author:
Wetherell Charles
Abstract
Ansley Coale's indices of fertility are well-established measures in historical demography. Developed in the 1960s, they formed the basic analytical device for the European Fertility Project (EFP), which chartered the decline of fertility inEurope (Coale and Watkins 1986), and which has since spawned efforts to measure fertility control in more refined and rigorous ways (David et al. 1988; David and Mroz 1989a, 1989b; David and Sanderson 1988, 1990; Haines 1989; Okun 1994a, 1994b; Bean et al. 1991; Anderson and Silver 1992).
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Social Sciences (miscellaneous),History