Datasets / Current Population Survey Fertility Supplement


Current Population Survey Fertility Supplement

Published By Department of Commerce

Issued over 9 years ago

US
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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a single dataset

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

A national survey conducted to obtain fertility data that will assist researchers in determining changes in the number of births at specified periods in the past that have altered the Nation's population composition. The universe for this survey is each household that was eligible for the Current Population Survey (CPS). The fertility questions are asked of females 15-44 years of age. It is a proxy response survey.