| Adolescent birth rate [message #15788] |
Sun, 16 September 2018 08:00  |
Mercysh
Messages: 35
Registered: April 2014
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Any ideas on using TFR2 to estimate young adolescent fertility (ages 10-14 years) or including older adolescents (ages 10-19 years)? Also want to know if one can estimate at subnational levels.
Mercy
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| Re: Adolescent birth rate [message #15789 is a reply to message #15788] |
Sun, 16 September 2018 08:25  |
schoumaker
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Registered: May 2013
Location: Belgium
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Hello,
The simplest way with the current version of tfr2 is to compute rates by single years of age between 10 and 14, and to compute the 10-14 fertility rate as the average of these rates.
tfr2, len(5) minage(10) maxage(14) ageg(1)
You obtain the "TFR" between 10-14, and you divide it by 5.
This is because, for the 5 years before the survey, the young adolescents are underrepresented - as explained in the MacQuarrie et al. paper ( https://paa.confex.com/paa/2018/mediafile/ExtendedAbstract/P aper22258/MacQuarrie%20et%20al%20Adolescent%20Retro%20Method s%20abstract%20PAA%202018.pdf).
The result from tfr2 will be very close to the result using the method in the MacQuarrie paper.
I am currently preparing a Stata command that will estimate the 10-14 rate in the same way as in that paper.
Best regards,
Bruno
Bruno Schoumaker
Centre for Demographic Research
Université catholique de Louvain
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