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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 2 MAFEs (×100) for ASFRs for 1-year-ahead to 20-year-ahead point forecasts by model/method and forecast horizon

From: Synergy in fertility forecasting: improving forecast accuracy through model averaging

 

Six models

Model average

Horizon

HU

HUrob

HUw

RW

RWD

ARIMA

Frequentist

Bayesian

MCS

Equal

1

0.16

0.16

0.14

0.16

0.17

0.15

0.14

0.16

0.16

0.14

2

0.25

0.25

0.22

0.27

0.29

0.24

0.23

0.27

0.26

0.23

3

0.34

0.34

0.31

0.38

0.41

0.34

0.32

0.38

0.37

0.32

4

0.43

0.43

0.40

0.49

0.53

0.44

0.40

0.48

0.47

0.40

5

0.51

0.52

0.48

0.59

0.64

0.54

0.49

0.58

0.56

0.49

6

0.60

0.60

0.57

0.69

0.75

0.63

0.57

0.67

0.66

0.57

7

0.69

0.69

0.65

0.79

0.87

0.74

0.66

0.77

0.75

0.66

8

0.78

0.78

0.76

0.88

0.98

0.85

0.75

0.86

0.84

0.75

9

0.87

0.87

0.86

0.98

1.08

0.96

0.83

0.96

0.94

0.83

10

0.96

0.96

0.96

1.07

1.19

1.06

0.92

1.05

1.02

0.92

11

1.05

1.05

1.05

1.16

1.29

1.16

1.00

1.14

1.11

1.00

12

1.14

1.13

1.13

1.25

1.39

1.25

1.07

1.23

1.20

1.07

13

1.23

1.23

1.22

1.34

1.49

1.36

1.16

1.32

1.29

1.15

14

1.33

1.32

1.30

1.44

1.59

1.46

1.25

1.42

1.38

1.24

15

1.44

1.42

1.43

1.53

1.69

1.56

1.33

1.51

1.48

1.33

16

1.53

1.53

1.51

1.63

1.80

1.66

1.44

1.61

1.58

1.43

17

1.63

1.63

1.58

1.74

1.91

1.76

1.54

1.71

1.70

1.54

18

1.76

1.74

1.78

1.85

2.03

1.88

1.67

1.80

1.83

1.67

19

1.88

1.88

2.01

1.96

2.14

2.02

1.79

1.93

1.94

1.78

20

2.00

2.00

2.08

2.07

2.24

2.19

1.88

2.05

2.02

1.88

Median

1.00

1.00

1.01

1.11

1.24

1.11

0.96

1.10

1.07

0.96

  1. The MAFEs are averaged over ages, years in the forecasting period and countries