This study investigates the realization of time-related positive fertility intentions using a comparative approach. Four European countries of medium size are compared, all with rather different fertility regimes: the Netherlands and Switzerland in western Europe, and Hungary and Bulgaria in the...

China has joined the group of low-fertility countries; it has a total fertility rate somewhere in the range of 1.4 to 1.6. Much speculation about China?s future fertility depends on whether individual?s fertility intentions and preferences are much higher than the state?s fertility goals. If so,...

Festy Patrick. The Fertility of Marriages in Quebec according to the 1971 Family Survey. Since the end of the 1950's, fertility has been falling very fast in Quebec. A survey was undertaken in the middle of 1971 in order to enable this fall to be related to the behaviour of individual couples....

Festy (Patrick). - Principles and Practice of Demographic Projections. Six Homework Assignments The principles on which demographic projections are based are also at the base demographic analysis, and the teaching of methods of projection is an extension of the teaching of analysis. This is...