The German Generations and Gender Survey: Some Critical Reflections on the Validity of Fertility Histories

10.5072/10.CPoS-example Kreyenfeld, Michaela 14224586 Hornung, Anne 14224587 The German Generations and Gender Survey: Some Critical Reflections on the Validity of Fertility Histories Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany 2013 Fertility Marriage Data validation Germany Mikrozensus Gender survey 10300 Demography, Population Research subjectURI="http://www.gesis.org/classification en Article da|ra.14.103 urn:nbn:de:bib-cpos-2013-05de0 PDF 1 Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported Comparative Population Studies; Vol 38, No 1, 2013. ISSN 0076-7689 This paper validates the fertility histories of the German Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). Focusing on the cohorts 1930-69 of West German women, the total number of children, the parity distribution and the parity progression ratios are compared to external sources. One major result from this validation is that the German GGS understates the fertility for the older cohorts and overstates it for the younger ones.