@article{Kreyenfeld_Scholz_Peters_Wlosnewski_2011, place={Wiesbaden, Germany}, title={Order-Specific Fertility Rates for Germany: Estimates from Perinatal Statistics for the Period 2001-2008}, volume={35}, url={https://comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS/article/view/31}, DOI={10.12765/CPoS-2010-06}, abstractNote={Until 2008, Germany’s vital statistics did not include information on the biological order of each birth. This resulted in a dearth of important demographic indicators, such as the mean age at first birth and the level of childlessness. Researchers have tried to fill this gap by generating order-specific birth rates from survey data, and by combining survey data with vital statistics. This paper takes a different approach by using Perinatal Statistics to generate birth order-specific fertility rates for the period 2001 to 2008. Perinatal Statistics includes information on births that took place in German hospitals. Out-of-hospital births, which account for about 2 % of all births, are not included in the Perinatal Statistics. In a sensitivity analysis, we show how robust our estimates are to the inclusion of out-of-hospital births. Our general assessment is that the Perinatal Statistics is a valuable source for generating order-specific fertility rates, regardless of whether out-of-hospital births are included.}, number={2}, journal={Comparative Population Studies}, author={Kreyenfeld, Michaela and Scholz, Rembrandt and Peters, Frederik and Wlosnewski, Ines}, year={2011}, month={Feb.} }