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Regional Fertility Analyses

Content and Objectives

There are considerable regional differences in fertility. This is true for period- as well as cohort-specific fertility rates. With the German census of 2011, the possibilities of spatial analyses down to the district level have increased significantly. For the first time, cohort-specific fertility rates have been measured for Germany at the district level in this project.

Regional differences may be the result of different regional conditions on the one hand and compositional effects on the other, e.g. a different population structure in terms of educational and migration background. Therefore, this project addresses the central question of how much can be explained by the regional setting compared to compositional effects. In the analyses, regional factors include labour market, economic performance, childcare, sex ratios, recreational areas, traffic and housing space.

Duration

Since 2016

Team

Partners

Melanie Scheller, Federal Statistical Office

Publications

Bujard, Martin; Scheller, Melanie (2017):

Impact of Regional Factors on Cohort Fertility. New Estimations at the District Level in Germany.

Comparative Population Studies 42: 55–88.

Bujard, Martin; Scheller, Melanie (2017):

Einfluss regionaler Faktoren auf die Kohortenfertilität. Neue Schätzwerte auf Kreisebene in Deutschland.

Comparative Population Studies 41: 101–136 [Deutsche Übersetzung des englischen Originalartikels].

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