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Predicting the Effectiveness of Population Replacement Strategy Using Mathematical Modeling
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[The effects of fertility compression on birth sequence and age composition in Taiwan: a simulation]
In'Gu Munje Nonjip = Journal of Population Studies
|April 1, 1996
Abstract:
"Based on the cohort component projection, this paper simulates the effects of fertility compression on birth sequence and age composition in Taiwan, and explores the implications for social welfare. As a first step, we fix the fertility schedule on the age pattern of 1956 while leaving the TFR to shift as it was, [and] simulate the single year of age population groups from 1956 to 1992.... We subsequently assumed a fixed age pattern of fertility, a compressed pattern and an expanded pattern in a projection of five year...age groups from 1997 to 2097." (SUMMARY IN ENG)
Keywords:
Age DistributionAge FactorsAge Specific Fertility RateAsiaBirth IntervalsBirth OrderBirth RateChinaDemographic FactorsDeveloping CountriesEastern AsiaFamily And HouseholdFamily CharacteristicsFamily RelationshipsFertilityFertility MeasurementsFertility RatePopulationPopulation CharacteristicsPopulation DynamicsTaiwan
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