Cohort and period fertility of Polish women, 1945-2008

• Autorzy: Dorota Holzer-Żelażewska , Krzysztof Tymicki
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

In the article, changes in the reproductive behaviour in Poland, especially after 1989, are discussed in terms of both cohort and period measures of fertility. The article consists of two complementary parts. The first part essentially replicates cohort analyses published by Holzer and Holzer-Zelazewska (1997) with an extension to women's cohorts born in 1946-1990, who themselves gave birth in the years 1961-2008. The new data used in the analysis comes from the registration of births for the years 1985-2008, provided by the Central Statistical Office in Warsaw. The analysis includes age-specific cohort fertility rates (for cohorts born in 1946-1985), as well as the total cohort fertility rates. The second part of the paper adds a period perspective to the analysis of fertility changes in Poland after 1989. Here, focus is on the period total fertility rate, fertility rates by parity, and age-specific fertility rates. Moreover, using the Bongaarts-Feeney adjustment (Bongaarts and Feeney, 1998), attempt is made to account for changes in the TFR related to quantum and tempo effects. Profound changes, both in cohort and period fertility rates after 1989, were found to be mostly resulting from the decrease in the quantum (reduction of higher order births), and to a smaller extent were affected by the tempo, which was manifested by a slow, but persistent increase in the age at birth of the first child. Recent upward changes, both in cohort and period fertility, result from the recuperation effect shown by an increased intensity of births among large cohorts born from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Yet, it is still improbable that contemporary cohorts will attain completed fertility, high enough to guarantee the replacement of generations. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Fertility; Women's fertility; Demographic analysis

PL

Płodność; Dzietność kobiet; Analiza demograficzna

• Czasopismo: Studia Demograficzne
• Rocznik: 2009
• Numer: nr 1(155)
• Strony: 48--69

Twórcy

autor

Dorota Holzer-Żelażewska

• Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

autor

Krzysztof Tymicki

• Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

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