Short Description
The Human Fertility Database (HFD) is the leading scientific data resource on fertility in the developed countries. This open access database provides detailed and high-quality historical and recent data on period and cohort fertility by age of mother and birth order. The HFD is entirely based on official vital statistics and places a great emphasis on rigorous data checking and documentation. The HFD adopts uniform methodology to warrant data comparability across time and between countries. The database follows open data principles.
Contact Person
Krystof Zeman
Research Services
The five-year project Fertility, reproduction and population change in 21st century Europe (EURREP) analyses key issues related to fertility, reproduction and their implications in low-fertility societies. Our research combines detailed databases with surveys and theoretical perspectives. We pay particular attention to the education dimension, looking at how cohort fertility rates, family size, and fertility intentions are structured by level of education. Apart from Europe, which is the project’s primary focus, we examine other countries with low fertility rates, including the United States, Japan, Korea and Brazil.
The project consists of four interrelated themes:
- Advancing fertility research in contemporary Europe: Theories, patterns and reversals
- Aggregate patterns and developments of fertility intentions in Europe
- Fertility, migration, and population change: Advancing methods and measurement
- Expanding and sustaining new data infrastructure: the Human Fertility Database and other data
Methods & Expertise for Research Infrastructure
See detailed documentation at https://www.humanfertility.org/File/GetDocumentFree/Docs/methods.pdf
Equipment
https://www.eurrep.org/