Marriage Proportion, Age Specific Fertility, Births within Marriage ratios for US, Japan, and selected European countries

Dataset to accompany the paper "Marital fertility patterns and nonmarital birth ratios: an integrated approach"

Includes:

US African American women and White American women data on age-specific fertility (5-year groups), age specific marital fertility (5-year groups), proportion of women with a first marriage (5-year groups), and the ratio of births within marriage (5-year groups) as well as calculated values from the paper. For ages 15-44 and years 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000.

Selected European country women data on age-specific fertility (5-year groups), age specific marital fertility (5-year groups), proportion of women with a first marriage (5-year groups), and the ratio of births within marriage (5-year groups) as well as calculated values from the paper. For ages 15-44 and years 1991, 2001, and 2011 (data not available for all countries in all years).

Japanese women data on age-specific fertility (5-year groups), age specific marital fertility (5-year groups), proportion of women with a first marriage (5-year groups), and the ratio of births within marriage (5-year groups) as well as calculated values from the paper. For ages 15-44 and years 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010.