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Differential fertility among immigrants to England and Wales and some implications for population projections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2011

Jean Thompson
Affiliation:
Population Branch, General Register Office

Summary

The age structure of the immigrant female population as shown by the 1961 Census was heavily biased towards the young adult age groups, where fertility rates are highest. The birth rate for such a population could be expected considerably to exceed the average for this country as a whole, due to differences in age structure alone. The Census also showed marked differences betwen the fertility rates of different groups of immigrants but suggested that for the most important groups —from the Irish Republic, the Indian sub-continent and the Caribbean—they then amounted to a completed family size of roughly ½ child above the England and Wales average. There were also marked differences in 1961 between the socio-economic structure of immigrant groups; such evidence as there is points to socio-economic factors as playing an important part in explaining the fertility of immigrants, and its possible change over time.

Type
Demographic aspects
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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