FERTILITY PATTERNS IN THE MEXICAN ORIGIN POPULATION

这项研究将分析83年和86年CPS文件的数据， 连同1970年人口普查公共使用样本的数据， 为了调查代际地位之间的关系 以及女性教育与生育率之间的关系 墨西哥裔人口中的代际群体 美国的 包括在《公约》的目标和具体目标中， 项目如下：1）确定模式 墨西哥移民及其后代的生育率差异 美国的墨西哥移民 83-86年，以及自1970年以来这种模式如何变化; 2） 估计妇女教育对生育率的影响， 两个时期的世代群体; 3）检查 按代际状况分列的教育对生育率的影响模式， 年龄组和时间段（1970年与83-86年），以确定 无论是“差别机会成本”还是“少数群体 “地位”的观点为解释 教育/生育率关系;以及4）分解 教育和教育的影响纳入具体的均等组成部分。 墨西哥裔人口的相对增长率 对提供保健和医疗服务的政策规划的影响 社会服务 关于这一增长基础的知识 越来越重要的人口需要研究 人口的生育模式。 该研究报告在其 重点放在1983年和1986年CPS文件（最近唯一的来源， 允许审查墨西哥血统生育率的国家数据 三代人的细分）--将有助于 提高妇女对生育率适应模式的认识 墨西哥移民，以及增加知识， 女性教育影响生育率的方式 世代群体。

This research will analyze data from '83 and '86 CPS files, together with data from the 1970 Census Public Use Samples, in order to investigate the relationship between generational status and fertility and between female education and fertility within generational groups in the population of Mexican origin in the United States. Included among the objectives and specific aims of the project are the following: 1) to ascertain the pattern of variation in fertility among Mexican immigrants and the descendants of Mexican immigrants in the United States by generational status in 83-86 and how this pattern has changed since 1970; 2) to estimate the effects on fertility of female education within the generational groups at the two time periods; 3) to examine the patterns of education effects on fertility by generational status, age cohort and time period (1970 vs. 83-86) in order to ascertain whether a "differential opportunity costs" or a "minority group status" perspective provides the better basis for interpreting the education/fertility relationship; and 4) to decompose changes in generation and education effects into parity specific components. The relative growth rate of the Mexican origin population has implications for policy planning in the provision of health and social services. Knowledge about the bases of growth of this increasingly important population requires the study of the population's fertility patterns. The proposed research--in its focus on the 1983 and 1986 CPS files (the only recent sources of national data that allow Mexican origin fertility to be examined in terms of a three-generational breakdown)--will contribute to an increase in knowledge about patterns of fertility adaptation among Mexican immigrants, as well as to an increase in knowledge about the manner in which female education affects fertility within generational groups.