Using Fertility Surveys to Evaluate an Indirect Method for Detecting Fertility Control: A Study of Cohort Parity Analysis

Population Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 161-171

  Okun, Barbara S ^a   Trussell, James ^b   Vaughan, Barbara ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT PARITY ANALYSIS; DATA RELIABILITY; DEMOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE; FERTILITY CONTROL; METHODOLOGICAL EVALUATION; MODELLING APPROACH; POPULATION MODELLING;

EID: 0030465582     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: 14774747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0032472031000149276     Document Type: Article

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