fertestr: an R Package for Fertility Estimation

José Henrique Costa Monteiro da Silva, University of Pennsylvania
Everton E. C. Lima, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Helena Castanheira, Celade
Patrick Gerland, United Nations Population Division

Several countries still rely on indirect methods for fertility estimation because their vital statistical systems are either incomplete or non-existent. Therefore, their fertility estimates are mostly drawn from surveys and censuses or from incomplete vital statistics, which often require additional adjustment using indirect demographic methods. The goal of the fertestr package is to compile the most commonly used indirect methods for data quality assessment and fertility estimation in a single R package. In this paper, we present several functions implemented and examples of their applications at both the national level, and for population subgroups and subnational level.

Keywords: Fertility, Data and Methods, Population projections, forecasts, and estimations

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