title: Nuptiality and fertility of birth cohorts.
abstract: The impact of changes in age patterns of nuptiality on the net reproduction rate is examined using life table techniques and assuming that age-specific fertility within marriage and fertility outside of marriage are fixed. In the second section, a standardization technique is used to investigate the impact of changes in nuptiality on age-cumulative measures of marital fertility. Examples using data for selected generations of Australian women demonstrate the extent to which recent changes in average completed family size in Australia were affected by changing nuptiality patterns.
authors.affiliation: Department of Demography, Australian National University, 2600, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia.
authors.forename: L T
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Ruzicka