The Human Fertility Database

Acknowledgements

Creating the Human Fertility Database is a very challenging endeavor, and we are very grateful to all our colleagues from various research institutions and statistical agencies for their extensive help.

Institutional support

This project would not have been possible without the encouragement and financial support of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany and the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), Vienna, Austria. The European Commission funded the initial work by the VID as part of the project "Reproductive decision-making in a macro-micro perspective" (REPRO) in the Seventh Framework Programme (Grant Agreement: SSH-CT-2008-217173).

Advisory Board

Our special gratitude for their valuable comments on the HFD methodology and general advice to the project is due to the members of the HFD Advisory Board:

• John Wilmoth, University of California, Berkeley
• Laurent Toulemon, INED, Paris
• Jean-Paul Sardon, INED, Paris
• Wolfgang Lutz, VID, Vienna

Individual contributors

The HFD project greatly relies on the network that includes statistical agencies, other data holders, and country experts that help us in locating, documenting and accessing various data, understanding their origins, quality, and other important details. We thankfully acknowledge the contributions of the following researchers and institutions:

Austria

• Tomáš Sobotka, Vienna Institute for Demography
• Statistics Austria

Bulgaria

• Yordan Kalchev, National Statistical Institute (NSI)
• Nadezhda Karlezhova, NSI
• Dimiter Philipov, Vienna Institute for Demography

Canada

• René Houle, Statistics Canada, Social and Aboriginal Statistics Division, Ottawa
• Marcel Boudreau, Statistics Canada, Resource and Aboriginal Fisheries Management, Quebec
• Statistics Canada

Czech Republic

• Tomáš Fiala, University of Economics, Prague
• Radek Havel, Czech Statistical Office (CZSO)
• Michaela Němečková, CZSO
• Jiří Vejrych, CZSO

Estonia

• Allan Puur, Estonian Interuniversity Population Research Centre
• Luule Sakkeus, Estonian Interuniversity Population Research Centre

Finland

• Timo Nikander, Statistics Finland

France

• Laurent Toulemon, Institut National d' Études Démographiques (INED)
• Jean-Paul Sardon, INED
• Magali Mazuy, INED

Germany

• Olga Pötzsch, Federal Statistical Office of Germany
• Michaela Kreyenfeld, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Hungary

• Ferenc Kamarás, Hungarian Central Statistical Office
• Zsolt Spéder, HCSO Demographic Research Institute

Lithuania

• Vlada Stankuniene, Institute for Demographic Research, Vilnius
• Statistics Lithuania

Netherlands

• Elma Wobma, Statistics Netherlands
• Trudy Lisci-Wessels, Statistics Netherlands

Portugal

• Maria Filomena Mendes, Universidade de Évora
• Isabel Oliveira, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE)
• Maria da Graça Magalhães, Instituto Nacional de Estatística

Russia

• Evgueni Andreev, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Slovakia

• Michaela Potančoková, Demographic Research Centre, Bratislava
• Branislav Šprocha, Demographic Research Centre, Bratislava

Slovenia

• Tina Žnidaršič, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
• Apolonija Oblak Flander, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia

Sweden

• Lotta Persson, Statistics Sweden
• Gunnar Andersson, Stockholm University

Switzerland

• Stéphane Cotter, Swiss Federal Statistical Office

U.K.

• Julie Jefferies, Office for National Statistics

U.S.A.

• Ward Kingkade, US Census Bureau