This short paper offers an original look at the fertility transition in India through the lens of the period parity progression ratios (PPPRs). Taking advantage of nearly 300,000 birth history data collected in three nationally representative surveys (National Family Health Survey, NFHS)...

On the basis of modifications to the original Whipple?s index, this short paper proposes a summary general measure of age reporting quality ? the total modified Whipple?s index (Wtot) ? in complement to the developments proposed by Noumbissi (1992). To test its pertinence and validity, the new...

The closure of Mongolia to international community during the 20th century resulted in a dearth of available data and analytic demographic studies. In the absence of mortality analysis during the socialist period, this paper proposes the use of indirect census-based techniques to estimate...