2014Demographic ResearchOpen access

Reverse survival method of fertility estimation

Thomas Spoorenberg

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For the most part, demographers have relied on the ever-growing body of sample surveys collecting full birth history to derive total fertility estimates in less statistically developed countries. Yet alternative methods of fertility estimation can return v

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For the most part, demographers have relied on the ever-growing body of sample surveys collecting full birth history to derive total fertility estimates in less statistically developed countries. Yet alternative methods of fertility estimation can return v

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For the most part, demographers have relied on the ever-growing body of sample surveys collecting full birth history to derive total fertility estimates in less statistically developed countries. Yet alternative methods of fertility estimation can return v

Key concepts: Fertility, Estimation, Total fertility rate, Demography, Sample (material), Statistics, Population, Research methodology

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