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Re: Calculating fertility rates [message #499 is a reply to message #207] Thu, 30 May 2013 09:51 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Hello - I prepared a Stata module (called tfr2) to compute fertility rates in a variety of ways. It was developed to be used mainly with DHS data, so the default options allow computing fertility rates like in DHS very easily (and the results - if you choose the default options - will be the same as in the DHS reports).

The module and the paper presenting it can be downloaded from the Demographi Research journal's website (http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol28/38/).

Best regards,

Bruno


Bruno Schoumaker
Centre for Demographic Research
Université catholique de Louvain
 
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