Joint forecasts of Southern European fertility rates with non-stationary dynamic factor models

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 539-550

  Ortega, José Antonio ^a   Poncela, Pilar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Demographic modelling; Factor models; Fertility; Joint forecasts; Multiple time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644448422     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2005.02.005     Document Type: Article

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