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Retherford, Robert D.; Alam, Iqbal – 1985
Fertility trends estimated alternately from birth histories and own children method are compared for eight developing countries in which the World Fertility Survey was conducted. Principle hypotheses are that fertility trends estimated by the two approaches suffer from similar errors in the reporting of women's and children's ages, and that these…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Census Figures, Children, Demography