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Notes on the Data
Pages 4-8

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... The situation is problematic because the estimation procedures used here require that we assume the childbearing process to have remained relatively unchanged over the entire period; a stationarity assumption that may not be met by the data because the period between 1960 and 1976 was one of considerable social, economic, and demographic change for both countries. In order to 4
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From page 5...
... As already noted, births occurring farther away from the survey date and associated with the last two intervals are less and less representative of all births for that period. In particular, births occurring far from the survey date will be associated with longer intervals Short intervals from earlier periods will be correspond dingly underrepresented.
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... 1 96S 1970 197 S FIGURE 1 Total Fer tility Rates and Infant Mortality Rates, 1960-78 S our ces : National Research Council (1982) ; tabulations from the Costa Rica study by the Panel on Latin America, Committee on Population and Demography, National Academy of Sciences.
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From page 7...
... 1960 .4 .3 l? ~ '- - -'`"-"2 ~ _ "_ _ 1966 1970 _._ 1975 ~ i: 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35~39 40-44 45~49 FIGURE 2 Age-Specific Fertility Rates, 1960-75 Sources: National Research Council (1982)
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From page 8...
... Thus, all last and next-to~las t births are analyzed first, followed by only those occurs ing since 1960, since 1965, and since 1970 .
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