New Estimates of Fertility and Population in the United States / / Melvin Zelnik, Ansley Johnson Coale.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Coale, Ansley Johnson,; Zelnik, Melvin,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1963
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Office of Population Research ; 2198
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)

Census decennial enumerations are utilized to achieve two useful estimates: (l) Annual series of estimates of births, birth rates, and fertility rates for the white population of the U.S. from 1855 to the present (the first set of data on an annual basis); (2) Adjusted single-year age distributions of native white population and estimated undercounts by five-year age groups for the white population for each census since 1880.Originally published in 1963.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Part I. Introduction and Outline of Methods -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. General Statement of Methods -- Part II. Principal Results: Annual White Births and Birth Rates; The Long-Term Trend in Fertility; Completeness of Enumeration -- Chapter 3. White Births and Birth Rates in the United States since 1855 -- Chapter 4. Long-Term Fertility Trends in the United States Compared to Those in Selected European Countries -- Chapter 5. Estimates of Census Enumeration Errors -- Part III. Techniques of Analysis and Estimation -- Chapter 6. The Relation between Total Fertility and the Birth Rate -- Chapter 7. Adjusting for Age Heaping -- Chapter 8. Estimating Annual Births and Birth Rates -- Chapter 9. Estimating Census Enumeration Errors -- Appendices -- Appendix A. Special Adjustments -- Appendix Β. Construction of Life Tables -- Appendix C. Detailed Tables