Booth Standard

A "standard" distribution for age-specific fertility rates proposed in Booth (1984), and widely used for estimating fertility rates in settings with high fertility and limited data.

Usage

booth_standard

Format

A tibble with 8 rows and the following columns:

• age Five-year age group, from "10-14" to "45-49"

• value Proportion of total fertility occurring within the age group

Source

Booth H (1984) Transforming Gompertz's function for fertility analysis: The development of a standard for the relational Gompertz function. Population Studies 38(3): 495-506.

Details

The key input for booth_standard is 'Yx' from table 2 of Booth (1984).