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Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate [message #13559 is a reply to message #13538]

Sat, 18 November 2017 15:31

schoumaker
Messages: 66
Registered: May 2013
Location: Belgium

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Hello,

For marital fertility rates, when you use

tfr2, entry(v509)

only births occuring after first marriage and exposure after first marriage are used in the computation of fertility rates. This is equal to marital fertility rates if people remain married from that time. This is usually fine at low ages, but less at higher ages, since some people are no longer in union at the time of the survey.

you could select a subsample (for instance people married or living together at the time of the survey) - that should lead to slightly higher rates.

tfr2, entry(v509), if v501==1 | v501==2

There is no direct way to compute non marital fertility rates with tfr2 - but with a simple trick you should be able to get them:

Here is what I would do:

* you create a variable dates that is equal to the date of first marriage if marriage occured, and the date of survey if the marriage has not occured. So you will only keep observtions before that date (before marriage, and until the survey if the person married).

gene dates=cond(v509!=., v509, v008)

* you create a date of entry that is equal to the date of the survey(v008) minus the number of months (36 if you want to compute rates over the last 3 years)

gene entry=v008-36

* next, you compute the rates between the start of the period (entry) and the dates variable (date of marriage or date of survey if not married).

tfr2, entry(entry) dates(dates)

I tested it in a few countries and it looks fine. But I would be glad to have your feedback.

Hope this helps.

Best,

Bruno

Bruno Schoumaker
Centre for Demographic Research
Université catholique de Louvain

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		Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: Michaelo on Fri, 17 November 2017 00:31
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: Michaelo on Sat, 18 November 2017 09:35
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: schoumaker on Sat, 18 November 2017 15:31
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: Michaelo on Sat, 18 November 2017 21:18
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: schoumaker on Sun, 19 November 2017 02:36
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: Michaelo on Tue, 21 November 2017 03:14
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: Mercysh on Tue, 27 August 2019 08:58
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: schoumaker on Tue, 27 August 2019 13:11
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: Mercysh on Thu, 29 August 2019 05:34
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: Mercysh on Mon, 30 September 2019 04:21
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: schoumaker on Mon, 30 September 2019 07:26
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: Mercysh on Wed, 02 October 2019 04:57
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: schoumaker on Wed, 02 October 2019 13:04
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: Mercysh on Thu, 03 October 2019 03:47
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: Mercysh on Thu, 03 October 2019 07:39
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: schoumaker on Thu, 03 October 2019 07:45
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: Mercysh on Thu, 03 October 2019 08:22
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: Mercysh on Thu, 10 October 2019 11:03
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: waqas on Tue, 11 July 2023 05:37
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: schoumaker on Wed, 12 July 2023 07:46
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: waqas on Thu, 13 July 2023 00:38
		Re: Using tfr2 to Calculate age specific marital fertility rate By: schoumaker on Thu, 13 July 2023 03:19
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