The Human Fertility DatabaseAcknowledgementsCreating 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 supportThis 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 BoardOur 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:
Individual contributorsThe 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
Czech Republic
Netherlands
Russia
Slovakia
Sweden
Switzerland
USA
Finland
Estonia
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