Geburtenbarometer: Monitoring of Fertility in Austria and Vienna
Geburtenbarometer Austria and Geburtenbarometer Vienna (launched in May 2010) are interconnected projects of the Vienna Institute of Demography, aiming to provide continuous monitoring of period fertility rates in Austria and in Vienna. They have three main objectives:
- Monitoring recent fertility trends in Austria and Vienna on a quarterly and monthly (for Austria only) basis
- Providing a set of parity-specific fertility indicators that are less affected by the ongoing change in fertility timing than the commonly used period total fertility rates (TFR)
- Providing detailed data on annual fertility developments
Latest quarterly report: Fertility trends in January - June 2012 (in German)
Latest annual report: Fertility in 2011 (final results, in German)
Dataset with annual and quarterly data for Austria and Vienna (in Excel, in English and in German)
The Geburtenbarometer provides quarterly and annual reports and regularly updated datasets. All fertility indicators are computed from the extracts of individual birth records supplied by Statistics Austria. Monthly and quarterly monitoring of fertility allows the evaluation of most recent fertility trends in conjunction with the relevant information on changes in family policies or various socio-economic indicators. The Geburtenbarometer provides the ordinary TFR as well as the set of parity-progression ratios, based on birth interval (duration since the previous birth). A summary indicator of fertility derived from these parity progression ratios is termed the period average parity (PAP). Compared to the ordinary TFR, the PAP has two main advantages: it is relatively little affected by the changes in fertility timing and, being an indicator based on parity-specific approach, it is also more consistent with the sequential nature of childbearing and thus approximates more closely the family-building behaviour of real birth cohorts.
Fertility rates in Austria: monthly trends since January 2000
Fertility rates in Vienna: Quarterly trends since 2002
Period total fertility rate in Austria and Vienna: 1951-2011
Annual fertility indicators: Vienna and Austria 1984-2011
Fertility indicators in the last quarter, compared to the same quarter of the previous year: Austria and Vienna
Note: The time series of the PAP are computed in an annual format and differ considerably from the averages of monthly data
Additional data, reports and supplementary material:
(see above for the recent and most relevant materials)
- Geburtenbarometer Vienna: An overview (VID Working Paper 07/2011, in English)
- Geburtenbarometer Austria: Research and review article (2005, in English)
- Article on "Monthly Estimates of the Quantum of Fertility: Towards a Fertility Monitoring System in Austria" (T. Sobotka, M. Winkler-Dworak, M. R. Testa, W. Lutz, D. Philipov, H. Engelhardt, and R. Gisser, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2005: 109-141
® article (in English)
® Appendices to the article (in English) - Human Fertility Database (in English, including detailed data for Austria since 1951)
- European Demographic Data Sheet 2012
ARCHIVE:
- Fertility in 2010 - Final results (in German)
- Fertility in 2009 - Final results (in German)
- Fertility in 2008 - Final results (in German)
- Fertility in 2007 - Final results (in German)
- Fertility in 2006 - Final results (in German)
- Database of period & cohort fertility in Austria until 2004 (in English)
- Geburtenbarometer – Press Conference 2006