FERTILITY PATTERNS IN THE MEXICAN ORIGIN POPULATION

这项研究将分析1983年3-4-6月CPS匹配的数据 文件，以及1970年人口普查公共使用样本的数据，按顺序 研究生育状况与生育率的关系 以及女性教育与代际生育之间的关系 在美国有墨西哥血统的人口。包括在 本项目的目标和具体目标如下：1) 确定墨西哥移民生育率的变化模式 在美国的墨西哥移民的后代 1983年的代际状况以及1970年以来这一模式的变化；2) 评估女性受教育程度对生育率的影响 两个时间段的代际分组；以及3)检查模式 教育对生育率的影响按世代地位、年龄队列和 时间段(1970年与1983年)，以确定是否 “差别机会成本”或“少数群体地位”观点 为解释教育/生育率提供了更好的基础 两性关系。 墨西哥裔人口的相对增长率有一定的影响 在提供卫生和社会服务方面进行政策规划。 对这一增长基础的了解日益重要 人口需要研究人口的生育模式。这个 提案研究--以1983年3-4-6月CPS匹配为中心 文件(唯一允许墨西哥血统的最新国家数据来源 生育力将以三个概括性分类的方式进行检查)--Will 有助于增加对生育率模式的了解 墨西哥移民之间的适应以及知识的增长 关于女性教育影响生育的方式 代际群体。

This research will analyze data from the March-April-June 1983 CPS matched file, 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 1983 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; and 3) to examine the patterns of education effects on fertility by generational status, age cohort and time period (1970 versus 1983) 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. 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 proposal research--in its focus on the March-April-June 1983 CPS matched file (the only recent source of national data that allows Mexican origin fertility to be examined in terms of a three-generaltional 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.