No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
Another Look at Coale’s Indices of Fertility, If and Ig
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2016
Extract
Ansley Coale's indices of fertility are well-established measures in historical demography. Developed in the 1960s, they formed the basic analytical device for the European Fertility Project (EFP), which chartered the decline of fertility inEurope (Coale and Watkins 1986), and which has since spawned efforts to measure fertility control in more refined and rigorous ways (David et al. 1988; David and Mroz 1989a, 1989b; David and Sanderson 1988, 1990; Haines 1989; Okun 1994a, 1994b; Bean et al. 1991; Anderson and Silver 1992).
- Type
- Articles
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © Social Science History Association 2001
References
Anderson, Barbara A., and Brian D., Silver (1992)“ A simple measure of fertility control.” Demography 29: 343–56.Google Scholar
Atack, Jeremy, and Bateman, Fred (1987) To Their Own Soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum North. Ames: Iowa State University Press.Google Scholar
Barclay, George W., (1958) Techniques of Population Analysis. New York: John Wiley and Sons.Google Scholar
Bean, Lee L., Mineau, Geraldine P., and Anderton, Douglas L. (1991) Fertility Change on the American Frontier: Adaptation and Innovation. Berkeley: University of California Press.Google Scholar
Broström, Göran (1985) “Practical aspects on the estimation of the parameters in Coale’s model for marital fertility.” Demography 22: 625–31.Google Scholar
Cleland, John, and Wilson, Chris (1987) “Demand theories of the fertility transition: An iconoclastic view.”Population Studies 41: 5–30.Google Scholar
Coale, Ansley J. (1967) “Factors associated with the development of low fertility: An historic summary,” in United Nations, Proceedings of the World Population Conference, Belgrade, 30 August-10 September 1965. Vol. 2. New York: United Nations: 205–9.Google Scholar
Coale, Ansley J. (1969) “The decline of fertility in Europe from the French Revolution to World War II,” in Behrman, S. J. and Corsa, Leslie (eds.) Fertility and Family Planning: A World View. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press: 3–24.Google Scholar
Coale, Ansley J. (1992) “Age of entry into marriage and the date of the initiation of voluntary birth control.”Demography 29: 333–41.Google Scholar
Coale, Ansley J., Anderson, Barbara A., and Harm, Erna (1979) Human Fertility in Russia since the Nineteenth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Coale, Ansley J., and Treadway, Roy (1986) “A summary of the changing distribution of overall fertility, marital fertility, and the proportion married in the provinces of Europe,” in Coale, Ansley J. and Watkins, Susan Cotts (eds.) The Decline of Fertility in Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press: 31–181.Google Scholar
Coale, Ansley J., and Trussell, James T. (1974)“Model fertility schedules: Variations in the age structure of childbearing in human populations.” Population Index 40: 185–258.Google Scholar
Coale, Ansley J., and Trussell, James T. (1975) “A new method of estimating standard fertility measures from incomplete data.” Population Index 41: 182–210.Google Scholar
Coale, Ansley J., and Trussell, James T. (1978) “Finding the two parameters that specify a model schedule of marital fertility rates.” Population Index 44: 203–13.Google Scholar
Coale, Ansley J., and Watkins, Susan Cotts (eds.) (1986) The Decline of Fertility in Europe.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Coale, Ansley J., and Zelnik, Melvin (1963) New Estimates of Fertility and Population in the United States: A Study of Annual White Births from 1855 to 1960 and of Completeness of Enumeration in the Censuses from 1880 to 1960. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Craig, Lee A. (1993) To Sow One Acre More: Childbearing and Farm Productivity in the Antebellum North. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.Google Scholar
David, Paul A., and Mroz, Thomas A. (1989a) “Evidence of fertility regulation among rural French villagers, 1749–1789: A sequential econometric model of birth-spacing behavior (part 1).” European Journal of Population 5: 1–26.Google Scholar
David, Paul A., and Mroz, Thomas A. (1989b) “Evidence of fertility regulation among rural French villagers, 1749–1789: A sequential econometric model of birth-spacing behavior (part 2).” European Journal of Population 5: 173–206.Google Scholar
David, Paul A., Mroz, Thomas A., Sanderson, Warren C., Wachter, Kenneth W., and Weir, David R. (1988) “Cohort parity analysis: Statistical estimates of the extent of fertility control.”Demography 25: 163–88.Google Scholar
David, Paul A., and Sanderson, Warren C. (1988) “Measuring fertility control with CPA.” Population Index 54: 691–713.Google Scholar
David, Paul A., and Sanderson, Warren C. (1990) “Cohort parity analysis and fertility transition dynamics: Reconstructing historical trends in fertility control from a single census.” Population Studies 44: 421–45.Google Scholar
Degler, Carl (1980) At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Easterlin, Richard A. (1976a) “Factors in the decline of farm family fertility in the United States: Some preliminary results.” Journal of American History 63: 600–14.Google Scholar
Easterlin, Richard A. (1976b) “Population change and farm settlement in the northern United States.” Journal of Economic History 36: 45–75.Google Scholar
Eaton, Joseph W., and Mayer, Albert J. (1953) “The social biology of very high fertility among the Hutterites: The demography of a unique population.” Human Biology 25: 206–64.Google Scholar
Eaton, Joseph W., and Mayer, Albert J. (1954) Man’s Capacity to Reproduce: The Demography of a Unique Population. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.Google Scholar
Ewbank, Douglas (1993) “Coarse and refined methods for studying the fertility transition in historical perspective,” in Reher, David S. and Schofield, Roger (eds.) Old and New Methods of Historical Demography. Oxford: Clarendon Press: 345–60.Google Scholar
Guinnane, Timothy, Okun, Barbara S., and Trussell, T. James (1994) “What do we know about the timing of historical fertility transitions in Europe?” Demography 31: 1–20.Google Scholar
Haines, Michael R. (1989) “American fertility in transition: New estimates of birth rates in the United States, 1900–1910.” Demography 26: 137–48.Google Scholar
Haines, Michael R. (1996) “Long term marriage patterns in the United States from colonial times to the present.” History of the Family 1: 14–39.Google Scholar
Haines, Michael R. (1997) “Estimated life tables for the United States, 1850–1900.” Historical Methods 30: 149–69.Google Scholar
Hajnal, J. (1965) “European marriage patterns in perspective,” in Glass, D. V. and Eversley, D. E. C. (eds.)Population in History: Essays in Historical Demography. London: Arnold: 101–43.Google Scholar
Hammel, E. A. (1990) “A theory of culture for demography.” Population and Development Review 16: 455–85.Google Scholar
Hammel, E. A. (1995) “Economics 1, culture 0: Fertility change and differences in the northwest Balkans, 1700–1900,” in Greenhalgh, Susan (ed.) Situating Fertility: Anthropology and Demographic Inquiry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 225–58.Google Scholar
Hinde, P. R. A., and Woods, R. I. (1984) “Variations in historical natural fertility patterns and the measurement of fertility control.” Journal of Biosocial Science 16: 309–21.Google Scholar
Klepp, Susan E. (1998) “Revolutionary bodies: Women and the fertility transition in the mid-Atlantic region, 1860–1820.” Journal of American History 85: 910–45.Google Scholar
Knodel, John E. (1974) The Decline of Fertility in Germany, 1871–1939. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Knodel, John E. (1988) Demographic Behavior in the Past: A Study of Fourteen German Village Populations in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Lee, Ronald D., Galloway, Patrick R., and Hammel, Eugene (1994) “Fertility control in Prussia: Estimating influences on supply, demand, and degree of control.” Demography 31: 347–74.Google Scholar
Lesthaeghe, Ron J. (1977) The Decline of Belgian Fertility, 1800–1970. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Livi-Bacci, Massimo (1977) A History of Italian Fertility during the Last Two Centuries. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
MacKinnon, Alison (1977) Love and Freedom:Professional Women and the Reshaping of Personal Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Mason, Karen Oppenheim (1997) “Explaining fertility transitions.” Demography 34: 443–54.Google Scholar
Okun, Barbara (1994a) “Cohort parity analysis: An exposition.” Historical Methods 27: 53–59.Google Scholar
Okun, Barbara (1994b) “Evaluating methods for detecting fertility control: Coale and Trussell’s model and cohort parity analysis.” Population Studies 48: 193–222.Google Scholar
Okun, Barbara (1995) “Distinguishing stopping behavior from spacing behavior with indirect measures.” Historical Methods 28: 85–96.Google Scholar
Pollak, Robert A., and Watkins, Susan Cotts (1993) “Cultural and economic approaches to fertility: Proper marriage or mesalliance?” Population and Development Review 19: 467–96.Google Scholar
Ruggles, Steven (1994a) “The origins of African-American family structure.” American Sociological Review 59: 136–51.Google Scholar
Ruggles, Steven (1994b) “The transformation of American family structure.” American Historical Review 99: 103–28.Google Scholar
Ruggles, Steven and Sobek, Matthew, with Hall, Patricia Kelly and Ronnander, Chad (1995) Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, IPUMS-95 Version 1.0 User’s Guide. Minneapolis: Social History Research Laboratory, Department of History, University of Minnesota.Google Scholar
Shryock, Henry S., Siegel, Jacob S., and Associates (1975) The Methods and Materials of Demography. Third Printing (rev.) Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.Google Scholar
Smith, Daniel Scott (1974) “Family limitation, sexual control, and domestic feminism in Victorian America,” in Hartman, Mary S. and Banner, Lois (eds.) Clio’s Consciousness Raised: New Perspectives on the History of Women. New York: Harper and Row: 119–36.Google Scholar
Smith, Daniel Scott (1987) “Early fertility decline in America: A problem in family history.” Journal of Family History 12: 73–84.Google Scholar
Smith, Daniel Scott (1993) “American family and demographic patterns and the northwest European model.” Continuity and Change 8: 389–415.Google Scholar
Szreter, Simon (1996) Fertility, Class, and Gender in Britain, 1860–1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Tietze, Christopher (1957) “Reproductive span and rate of reproduction among Hutterite women.” Fertility and Sterility 8: 89–97.Google Scholar
Trussell, James (1982) “M&M: A program for obtaining MLEs of the parameters of the Coale-Trussell Model.” Princeton, NJ: Office of Population Research, Princeton University.Google Scholar
U.S. Bureau of the Census (1853) The Seventh Census of the United States: 1850. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. In Historical Demographic, Economic and Social Data: The United States, 1790–1970 [machine-readable dataset]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.Google Scholar
van de Kaa, D. J. (1996) “Anchored Narratives: The story and findings of half a century of research into the determinants of fertility.” Population Studies 50: 389–432.Google Scholar
von Jung-Stilling, Fr. (ed.) (1864) Material zu einer allgemeinen Statistik Livland’s und Oesel’. Riga: np.Google Scholar
von Jung-Stilling, Fr. (ed.) (1869) Die Resultate der am 3. Marz 1867 in der Stadt Riga ausgefuhrten Volkszahlung. Riga: np.Google Scholar
Watkins, Susan Cotts (1986) “Conclusions,” in Coale, Ansley J. and Watkins, Susan Cotts (eds.) The Decline of Fertility in Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press: 420–49.Google Scholar
Watkins, Susan Cotts (1991) From Provinces into Nations: Demographic Integration in Western Europe, 1870–1960. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Watkins, Susan Cotts (1993) “If all we knew about women was what we read in Demography, what would we know?”Demography 30: 551–77.Google Scholar
Watkins, Susan Cotts, and Danzi, Angela D. (1995)“ Women’s gossip and social change: Childbirth and fertility control among Italian and Jewish women in the United States, 1920–1940.”Gender and Society 9: 469–90.Google Scholar
Weir, David R. (1993) “Family reconstitution and population reconstruction: Two approaches to the fertility transition in France, 1740–1911,” in Reher, David S. and Schofield, Roger (eds.)Old and New Methods of Historical Demography. Oxford: Clarendon Press: 145–58.Google Scholar
Wetherell, Charles, and Plakans, Andrejs (1997) “Fertility and culture in Eastern Europe: A case study of Riga, Latvia, 1867–1881.” European Journal of Population 13: 243–68.Google Scholar
Wilson, Chris, Oeppen, Jim, and Pardoe, Mike (1988) “What is natural fertility? The modeling of a concept.”Population Index 54: 4–20.Google Scholar
Xie, Yu (1990) “What is natural fertility? The remodeling of a concept.” Population Index 56: 656–63.Google Scholar
Xie, Yu, and Pimentel, Ellen Efron (1992) “Age patterns of marital fertility: Revising the Coale-Trussell method.”Journal of the American Statistical Association 87: 977–84.Google Scholar
Yasuba, Yasukichi (1962) Birth Rates of the White Population in the United States, 1800–1860: An Economic Study. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.Google Scholar