The German Birth Order Register - order-specific data generated from perinatal statistics and statistics on out-of-hospital births 2001-2008

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Scholz, Rembrandt D.; Peters, Frederik; Wlosnewski, Ines

doi:10.4054/mpidr-wp-2010-010

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“…Data for Germany, distinguishing between Eastern Germany (former GDR) and Western Germany (former FRG), were assembled by Kreyenfeld et al (2010) from hospital birth records and later included in the Human Fertility Database. Because of administrative changes, the data pertaining to the period after 2001 exclude the territory of Berlin.…”

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Postponement and Recuperation in Cohort Fertility:<br>Austria, Germany and Switzerland in a European Context<br>

Sobotka

Zeman

Lesthaeghe

et al. 2012

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Across developed countries, cohorts of women born after World War II have seen a shift of childbearing towards later ages and a concomitant decline in fertility level. We study this shift using the notions of fertility postponement (fertility decline at younger ages) and subsequent recuperation (a compensatory fertility increase at higher reproductive ages). We apply order-specific data and extend and elaborate on two broad approaches to this process: 1) a basic benchmark model extensively used by Tomas Frejka and his colleagues and 2) a relational model proposed by Ron Lesthaeghe (2001). Our work focuses especially on three predominantly German-speaking countries, Austria, Germany and Switzerland, and compares them with selected European countries and the United States. We illustrate the usefulness of these two approaches for constructing projection scenarios of completed cohort fertility among women of reproductive age. Using three key indicators of the postponement transition – initial fertility level, absolute fertility decline at younger ages, and the relative degree of fertility “recuperation” at older ages – we demonstrate that each of these components is salient for explaining contemporary cross-country differences in cohort fertility. Recuperation is especially important, but is also clearly patterned by birth order: whereas all the countries analysed have experienced a vigorous recovery of delayed first births, pronounced differentials are observed with regard to the recuperation of second and particularly of third and later births. In line with the differentials observed, projected values of completed fertility in five European countries vary widely for the cohorts born in the early 1980s, ranging from 1.3 in the lowest scenario for Spain to over 1.8 in the highest scenario for the Czech Republic.

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“…Because of administrative changes, the data pertaining to the period after 2001 exclude the territory of Berlin. For the period through 2001, data for East Berlin were included in the dataset for Eastern Germany, and the data for West Berlin were part of the Western German dataset (see more details in Kreyenfeld et al 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

Postponement and Recuperation in Cohort Fertility:<br>Austria, Germany and Switzerland in a European Context<br>

Sobotka

Zeman

Lesthaeghe

et al. 2012

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Socialisation or Institutional Context: What Determines the First and Second Birth Behaviour of East–West German Migrants?

Vatterrott

2015

Eur J Population

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In the more than two decades since German reunification, a convergence of total fertility rates in the eastern and western parts of the country has occurred. However, east-west differences remain in the timing, number, and spacing of births. The aim of this paper was to gain a better understanding of the relative importance of cultural norms and institutional contexts in the persistence of these differences by examining the fertility behaviour patterns of east-west migrants. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1990-2011, and applying event history modelling, the first and second birth behaviour patterns of female east-west German migrants are compared to those of the non-mobile populations in the eastern and western parts of the country. The migrants' first and second birth risks were found to lie between those of non-mobile eastern and western Germans. It is known that migrants are a selected group with respect to their socio-economic characteristics, value orientations, and partners' characteristics. This selectivity appears to explain the second birth behaviour of migrants. For first births, the differences between the migrants and the eastern Germans were shown to be even greater after controlling for selective characteristics. For both birth orders, there is evidence for socialisation and adaptation effects, but not for progressive adaptation over time. The effect of an east-west migrant being partnered with a western German was accounted for, but did not seem to accelerate adaptation.

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Sources of error in reported childlessness in a continuous British household survey

2011

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A recent investigation of the British General Household Survey (GHS) found substantial over-reporting of childlessness in recent years, particularly at older ages. We examine the phenomenon in further detail and find that the principal cause was change in survey procedures. To some extent the bias can be corrected for by using information on own children in the household. Revised fertility histories give period estimates of total fertility that are in close agreement with national vital registration statistics, unlike those based on original fertility histories of recent years. Misreporting in fertility histories dates primarily from administrative changes in the GHS in the years 1998-2000, and particularly from 2003, when the option of laptop self-completion (CASI) was introduced for reporting demographic histories.

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The German Birth Order Register - order-specific data generated from perinatal statistics and statistics on out-of-hospital births 2001-2008

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

Postponement and Recuperation in Cohort Fertility:<br>Austria, Germany and Switzerland in a European Context<br>

Postponement and Recuperation in Cohort Fertility:<br>Austria, Germany and Switzerland in a European Context<br>

Socialisation or Institutional Context: What Determines the First and Second Birth Behaviour of East–West German Migrants?

Sources of error in reported childlessness in a continuous British household survey

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