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Own-Children Method

The own-children method is an indirect technique for estimating age-specific fertility rates for the years preceding a census or survey, using only a single cross-sectional dataset in which children can be linked to their mothers within the same household. By reverse-surviving matched mother-child pairs back through time, it reconstructs annual birth rates and total fertility for roughly the previous 15 years without requiring any vital-registration data on births.

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Own-Children Method of Fertility Estimation

Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / demography

Preston, S. H., Heuveline, P., & Guillot, M. (2001). Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes. Blackwell. · ISBN 9781557864512

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Used in the same domainLife Tablemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyMean Age at Childbearingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyNet Reproduction Ratemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyTotal Fertility Ratemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.