Basic Data on Fertility in the Provinces of China, 1940-82.

Abstract

Part I. Changes in fertility, 1940-82 1Age-specific and duration-specific fertility rates for twenty-eight provinces 2Total fertility rates by age and duration since first marriage 2Truncation of fertility records for early years (before 1964) 4Variability of rates attributable to the limited sample sizes in individual provinces 5Features of China's fertility rates 7Fertility differences and fertility trends in the provinces 12How age-specific and duration-specific rates were calculated 27Truncation of estimates because of upper age limit of respondents 18Estimation of TDFR and TAFR, 1945-63 18 Estimation of TAFR from duration-specific rates, and total firstmarriage rates of preceding years 20 Part II.Basic Tables: Fertility rates by age of woman, and fertility rates of ever-married women by duration since first marrriage, 1940-82, for Mainland China and twenty-eight provinces: total, urban, and rural 23 Appendix A. Comments on the total age-specific fertility rate, total age-specific married fertility rate, and total duration-specific fertility rate 356 Hypothetical example of duration-specific and age-specific fertility when age at marriage changes 358 Conversion of TDFR into TAFR in China 360 TAFR and TDFR: Summary 362 Appendix B. Proofs of two propositions about the relation of TDFR and TAFR (by German Rodriguez and Ansley J. Coale)