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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 22.
Published in final edited form as: Evol Hum Behav. 2011 Jan 14;32(2):147–155. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.10.004

Table 2.

Cohort-specific factors estimated from the UPDB used to estimate the size of the nulliparous fraction of females

Age class Birth years Census δ¯X L¯XY(m=0) L¯XY(m>0) PY(F)
45–49 1891–1895 1940 2.1510E–04 0.5259 0.8954 0.1897
35–39 1871–1875 1910 1.1860E–02 0.4683 0.9326 0.2281
40–44 1866–1870 1910 2.3040E–03 0.4322 0.9054 0.1876
45–49 1861–1865 1910 2.8220E–04 0.3771 0.8679 0.1637

US Census data and UPDB data were binned into 5-year and 1-year windows, respectively. To account for this, single-year values of δx, Lxy(m=0) and Lxy(m>0) were averaged over 5 years (and weighted by cohort size) to arrive at the values above.