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Table 3 Sources of information on fertility (and lung cancer mortality) for selected Italian cohorts

From: Fertility decline and the emergence of excess female survival in post-reproductive ages in Italy

Birth cohort

Fertility

Mortality

1931 survey

1961 survey

If

Lung cancer

Regressions of Table 4

    

 1862–1866

1891

 1872–1876

50–59

1901

 1882–1886

45–49

1911

 1892–1996

65–69

1921

 1902–1906

55–59

1931

 1912–1916

45–49

1936

1991

 1922–1926

1951

2001

 1932–1936

1961

2011

Parity-specific survival (Sect. 4)

 

 Before 1887

45 + 

75 + 

  

 1887–1891

40–44

70–74

  
  1. “1931 survey” and “1961 survey” refer to the Italian retrospective fertility surveys carried out in 1931 and 1961, together with the population census, covering ever-married women. In these columns, the ranges refer to the age classes for which information on complete cohort fertility exists. “If” is the general fertility index as defined in the framework of the European Fertility Project and calculated by Livi Bacci (1977). This is the (period) fertility measure that we use as a proxy for the fertility of the cohorts born 25-29 years before: better measures are available for some cohorts, but not for all of them. Each cell in this column indicates the year when If was computed and the cohorts to which we associate this (period) measure. The last column refers to lung cancer mortality at 75-79 years (a proxy for the impact of smoking), derived from ISTAT’s “Health for All” database. The table displays the years when cancer mortality was calculated