A population model based on a life table that includes marriage and parity

doi:10.1016/0040-5809(75)90018-0

Theoretical Population Biology

Volume 7, Issue 2, April 1975, Pages 229-245

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Abstract

This paper presents a method for constructing a one-sex life table that incorporates age, marriage and parity. The life table is the basis for a generalized population model, with immediate extension to a stable population differentiated by age, marriage and parity status. The method is quite general and could be extended, without major modification, to more complex life tables.

Computation of intrinsic rates of increase for a number of populations adjusted for age, for age and parity, for age and marriage, and for age, marriage and parity shows that adjustment for marriage accounts for most of the difference between the age-adjusted rate and the age-, marriage-, and parity-adjusted rate. Adjustment for parity without adjustment for marriage may be misleading.

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^☆: Supported in part by US Public Health Service Grant No. HD 07256 of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHHD) to Child Health and Development Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Earlier support came from US Public Health Service training Grant No. HD 00375 of NICHHD to the University of California, Berkeley.

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A population model based on a life table that includes marriage and parity☆

Abstract

Births, marriages and reproductivity, England and Wales, 1938–1947

Probabilistic fertility models of the life table type

Theor. Pop. Biol

American Marriage and Divorce

A note on P. K. Whelpton's calculation of parity adjusted reproduction rates

J. Amer. Statist. Assoc

Introduction to the Mathematics of Population

A generalization of stable population techniques