Publication at Faculty of Science |
2012
Abstract
The main goal of the article is to examine changes in the mean age of mothers at childbirth using data available on the Czech Republic for the period 1950-2011 drawn from the Human Fertility Database and the Czech Statistical Oiffce. Therefore, besides describing developmental trends in the average age of women at birth, the article applies the method of decomposition, breaking down the difference between two means into the timing effect and the effect of the fertility structure according to birth order.
The article also discusses the issue of tempo-adjusted period measures of fertility, which are constructed to eliminate the distortion caused by the postponement (or timing in general) of childbearing.