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Title: Number of Children to Women Aged 40-44, 1980-2018
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2020
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Abstract: Birth rates in the U.S. have steadily declined since the Great Recession. The Total Fertility Rate (TFR), which estimates the average number of births women will have if they experience current birth rates throughout their childbearing years, is at a record low of 1.73 births per woman (Martin, Hamilton, Osterman, & Driscoll, 2019). However, the TFR does not reflect changes in birth timing, and delayed fertility is on the rise. While birth rates have fallen at younger ages, they have risen for women 35 and older. As such, looking at actual completed fertility provides another way of examining women’s fertility. In this profile, we use data from the Current Population Survey’s (CPS) biennial June Fertility Supplement for the years 1980 through 2018 to analyze completed fertility for women aged 40-44. We present trends in the distribution of children ever born (one, two, three, or four or more) for women aged 40-44 for the overall population and by race-ethnicity and education. A companion profile (FP-20-03) focuses on trends in children ever born by union status, with information on differentials in age at first birth in 2018 discussed in FP-20-05.
Url: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1216&context=ncfmr_family_profiles
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Authors: Guzzo, Karen, B; Schweizer, Valerie, J.
Series Title: National Center for Family & Marriage Research (NCFMR) Working Paper Series
Publication Number: 20-04
Institution: Bowling Green State University
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Data Collections: IPUMS CPS
Topics: Family and Marriage, Fertility and Mortality
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