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Boom, echo, pulse, flow: 385 years of Swedish births

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Riffe, T., Barclay, K. J., Klüsener, S., & Bohk-Ewald, C. (2019). Boom, echo, pulse, flow: 385 years of Swedish births. MPIDR Working Paper, WP-2019-002.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-B04C-E
Abstract
Human population renewal starts with births. Since births can happen at any time in the year and over a wide range of ages, demographers typically imagine the birth series as a continuous flow. Taking this construct literally, we visualize the Swedish birth series as a flow. A long birth series allows us to juxtapose the children born in a particular year with the children that they in turn had over the course of their lives, yielding a crude notion of cohort replacement. Macro patterns in generational growth define the meandering path of the flow, while temporal booms and busts echo through the flow with the regularity of a pulse.