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Title: Fertility of the Hispanic Population of the United States in Historical Perspective: Evidence from the Census of 1910
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Publication Year: 2003
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Abstract: The demography of the Hispanic population of the United States has received considerable attention for recent time periods. But historical perspective is more difficult to obtain. This is partly a function of data limitations, since it was not simple to identify the Hispanic origin population before the census of 1970. Studies that have done this have been local in nature, but it has not been possible to do a comprehensive national study. Now there exists a nationally representative sample of the Hispanic population of the United States based on the manuscripts of the 1910 census. It contains about 71,500 persons of Hispanic origin plus about another 24,000 of their non-Hispanic neighbors. It was sampled from six states (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, and Florida) where most of the Hispanic origin population lived. The criteria of mother tongue, Hispanic surname, place of birth, and place of birth of parents were all used to identify individuals. Previous work for recent years has pointed to relatively high fertility in the Hispanic population, tracing it mostly to Mexican and Puerto Rican origin groups. Analysis of this sample indicates this was historically true, at least for the Mexican origin population, which was the predominant part of the 1910 Hispanic population. This paper presents a detailed analysis of the fertility patterns of the Hispanic population at the turn of the century using own children methods. In addition to standardized age-specific child woman ratios, total fertility rates and total marital fertility rates are estimated, as well as estimates of If and Ig. Multivariate analysis of the fertility of individual women (children ever born and own young children present) is used to assess the controlled effects of such variables as socio-economic status (based on occupation and home/farm ownership), region, rural-urban residence, womans employment, ethnicity, race, and literacy.
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Authors: Haines, Michael; Gutmann, Myron
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Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Publisher Location: Cambridge, MA
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Race and Ethnicity
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