Recent trends and patterns in fertility in Australia
- 1 January 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Biosocial Science
- Vol. 1 (1) , 57-70
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932000000080
Abstract
Summary: The fall in the birth rate in Australia, from 23·6 per 1000 population in 1946 to 19·4 in 1967 is analysed according to various biosocial factors: the age composition of the female population and the age incidence of marriage in relation to it, the timing of births, the size of completed family and the overall effect of the variables.Keywords
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