This series of 5 reports are based on sample tabulations of the 1940 and 1910 fertility data. These reports present statistics on social, economic, and other characteristics of whites and Negroes for the United States, including country of birth for the foreign-born white, by regions, urban and rural.
This report is based on tabulations of samples of the census returns for 1940 and 1910. It presents statistics for native white and Negro women by number of children ever born and duration of marriage in relation to such social and economic characteristics as urban and rural residence, age of woman, education, employment status and major occupation group of husband; and supplementary tables with data showing detailed marital status of native white and Negro women, childless and mothers (by age) with total children ever born.
Practically all work on this subject was laid aside during the war because of shortage of manpower and pressure for other types of statistics required for war purposes. These statistics are useful not only for the study of differential fertility among women married comparable lengths of time but also for the study of differential marriage patterns among women of various groups. Statistics for 1910 are included in order to show the changes in fertility which have occurred in the course of a generation.
This report is based on the tabulation of samples of the census returns for 1940 and for 1910 and presents statistics on the fertility and other characteristics of women for regions, States, cities of 250,000 or more, and metropolitan districts of cities of 1,000,000 or more. This report contains the only statistics published from either census relating directly to the fertility of women for States, cities, and metropolitan districts.
Statistics for 1910 are included in order to show the changes in fertility which have occurred in the course of a generation.
This report presents fertility rates (gross and net reproduction rates, intrinsic rate of natural increase by States, intrinsic birth and death rates, mean length of generation by regions) for white and Negro women by urban and rural residence.
There are five appendixes:
The appended analyses are accompanied by illustrative tables.
This report presents statistics on number of children ever born to white and Negro women classified by social and economic characteristics of the woman and her family, e.g., detailed marital status, age of woman at marriage, duration of marriage, parentage of woman, region or country of birth of woman, years in the United States, education and literacy of woman, and rental value of home. Appendix—An index of the fertility of women ever married who made no report on the number of children ever born; relative to the fertility of those who did report.
This report presents statistics on the fertility of native white and Negro women 15 to 49 years old in the United States, according to social and economic characteristics of the woman and her family. Women are classified by number of children under 5 years old and by age in relation to marital status, parentage, education (last full grade of school completed), migration, birthplace, employment status, and tenure and monthly rental value of home. Women married once are also classified by relationship to the head of the household, occupation of husband, education of husband, and birthplace of husband. Statistics are presented for the United States by regions, urban and rural.
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