Table 1.

Estimated effects and deviance based on progressive models on actual and desired fertility rates in Taiwan, 1972 to 2006.

Model	Actual Fertility			Desired Fertility
	A	AP	APC	A	AP	APC
Age (αi)
20–26	REF	REF	REF	REF	REF	REF
27–33	−0.54	−0.71	−0.67	0.21	0.10	0.10
34–40	0.64	0.50	0.50	0.81	0.71	0.70
41–47	0.81	0.65	0.67	0.79	0.69	0.68
Period (βj)
1972–1978		0.72	0.75		0.64	0.64
1979–1985		REF	REF		REF	REF
1986–1992		1.05	1.07		1.03	1.03
1993–1999		−0.86	−0.86		−0.77	−0.79
2000–2006		−0.71	−0.71		−0.70	−0.69
Mid-Year of birth (γk)
1934			NA			NA
1941			0.99			1.03
1948			1.01			1.01
1955			0.99			1.01
1962			REF			REF
1969			1.00			0.99
1976			1.00			1.07
1983			1.13			1.09
df	16	12	5	16	12	5
Deviance	1600.778	27.938	21.587	740.663	10.944	4.371
Deviance/df	100.049	2.328	4.317	46.291	0.912	0.874
p-Value	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001

Note: A = age model; AP = age-period model; APC = age-period-cohort model; NA = non-available; REF = reference.