fatvegan

I think this is way cool. I'm really curious about the 80-84 age group. For some reason hardly any of them have three children. A lot had two kids, and a lot had four or more, but only a few had three. My hypothesis is that those mothers are all strong Anglicans or Catholics. All the Anglicans had 2, and all the Catholics had 4+.

Age     Birth       Women by number of children ever born
group   cohort      (%)
                    0       1       2       3       4+   
15–19  1982–86    97.6    2.2     0.1     0.1     0.0 
20–24  1977–81    83.2    9.6     5.8     1.1     0.0 
25–29  1972–76    58.1    18.8    13.6    5.3     0.3 
30–34  1967–71    33.2    22.2    25.1    13.5    4.2 
35–39  1962–66    15.9    13.4    36.1    22.0    6.0 
40–44  1957–61    14.0    12.4    36.2    22.4    12.6
45–49  1952–56    10.7    14.2    36.3    25.2    15.0
50–54  1947–51    8.1     9.4     40.2    26.1    13.6
55–59  1942–46    6.6     6.7     37.2    27.5    16.2
60–64  1937–41    7.5     6.7     29.0    24.4    22.0
65–69  1932–36    5.4     8.4     20.9    27.7    37.6
70–74  1927–31    5.8     8.9     26.1    25.5    31.6
75–79  1922–26    8.4     10.4    30.0    20.3    30.9
80–84  1917–21    5.0     11.5    30.6    17.3    35.6
85–89  1912–16    13.4    8.6     27.5    23.7    26.7
90–94  1907–11    3.7     4.9     31.4    36.2    23.8

Source: Australia's fertility: a HILDA survey based analysis