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The own-children method (OCM) applied to the Italian Labour Force Survey (ILFS) is an alternative way to give information on fertility for the years before the survey. By deriving children information and the population at risk on the basis of parents’ characteristics, a large-scale dataset for fertility analysis in Italy becomes available, also to reconstruct event histories. The quality assessment provided by comparing the total fertility rate (TFR) calculated on ILFS with the official regional and national TFRs by ISTAT gives us usable outcomes.
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Bordone, V., Billari, F.C. & Dalla Zuanna, G. The Italian Labour Force Survey to estimate fertility. Stat Methods Appl 18, 445–451 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10260-008-0102-z
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