Monitoring of German Fertility: Estimation of Monthly and Yearly Total Fertility Rates on the Basis of Preliminary Monthly Data

This paper introduces a set of methods for estimating fertility indicators in the absence of recent and short-term birth statistics. For Germany, we propose a set of straightforward methods that allow for the computation of monthly and yearly total fertility rates (mTFR) on the basis of preliminary...

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Main Authors: Gabriele Doblhammer, Nadja Milewski, Frederik Peters
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Federal Institute for Population Research 2011-02-01
Series:Comparative Population Studies
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Online Access:http://www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS/article/view/32