Fertility and education in Japan

This page gives information of type fertility and education about the country Japan.
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Data here are taken from this paper by Retherford et al.

Total fertility rate by completed education level

Note that the total fertility rate (TFR) is measured based on the level of completed education at the time of having children. Women who are still pursuing education are omitted from the statistics (?).

Time period	Junior high	Senior high	Junior college	University	Total	TFR as reported by HFD (average of five years)	TFR as reported in UN data
1966-70	2.19	1.99	1.88	1.9	1.99	2.0356	2.0486
1971-75	2.32	2.16	1.98	1.93	2.09	2.0732	2.0708
1976-80	2.05	1.91	1.75	1.64	1.78	1.7764	1.8484
1981-85	1.86	1.72	1.77	1.63	1.72	1.7652	1.7396
1986-90	1.71	1.7	1.61	1.48	1.59	1.6368	1.6368
1991-95	1.57	1.56	1.43	1.24	1.43	1.488	1.4704
1996-2000	1.48	1.49	1.36	1.14	1.34	1.3832	1.3554
Maximum	2.32	2.16	1.98	1.93	2.09	2.0732	2.0708
Minimum	1.48	1.49	1.36	1.14	1.34	1.3832	1.3554
Average (arithmetic mean)	1.8828571429	1.79	1.6828571429	1.5657142857	1.7057142857	1.7369142857	1.7385714286
Geometric mean	1.8598566989	1.7763083083	1.6691871212	1.5396381338	1.686434181	1.720256161	1.7197964151
Median	1.86	1.72	1.75	1.63	1.72	1.7652	1.7396
Standard deviation	0.3172650987	0.240554914	0.228306394	0.3024266932	0.2760952217	0.2587648316	0.2731454418
Slope for best linear fit (using linear regression)	-0.1417857143	-0.1039285714	-0.1	-0.1364285714	-0.1235714286	-0.1166857143	-0.1247142857
Multiplier for best logarithmic fit (using linear regression on logarithm)	0.9264883066	0.943265982	0.9409043005	0.9139328737	0.9291277283	0.9342491507	0.9295490923
$R^{2}$ for linear regression	0.9320240799	0.8710603193	0.8953042207	0.9496798042	0.9348138431	0.9489244914	0.9728620743

Age-specific fertility rate by completed education level

Age 15-19

Time period	Junior high	Senior high	Junior college	University	Total
1966-70	14	3	1	0	5
1971-75	25	4	1	0	5
1976-80	27	4	1	0	4
1981-85	32	4	1	0	4
1986-90	33	4	1	0	4
1991-95	33	5	0	0	4
1996-2000	34	6	1	0	4
Maximum	34	6	1	0	5
Minimum	14	3	0	0	4
Average (arithmetic mean)	28.2857142857	4.2857142857	0.8571428571	0	4.2857142857
Geometric mean	27.2636553708	4.1996372783	0	0	4.2633262331
Median	32	4	1	0	4
Standard deviation	7.1580790187	0.9511897312	0.377964473	0	0.4879500365
Slope for best linear fit (using linear regression)	-0.1417857143	-0.1039285714	-0.1	-0.1364285714	-0.1235714286
Multiplier for best logarithmic fit (using linear regression on logarithm)	0.9264883066	0.943265982	0.9409043005	0.9139328737	0.9291277283
$R^{2}$ for linear regression	0.9320240799	0.8710603193	0.8953042207	0.9496798042	0.9348138431

Age 20-24

Time period	Junior high	Senior high	Junior college	University	Total
1966-70	140	89	49	25	967
1971-75	162	113	60	29	110
1976-80	156	87	49	20	87
1981-85	130	70	42	15	70
1986-90	115	72	29	9	51
1991-95	101	62	22	5	41
1996-2000	87	63	22	5	37
Maximum	162	113	60	29	967
Minimum	87	62	22	5	37
Average (arithmetic mean)	127.2857142857	79.4285714286	39	15.4285714286	194.7142857143
Geometric mean	124.5435820585	77.7819165062	36.4158847378	12.5464324932	90.6028260222
Median	130	72	42	15	70
Standard deviation	27.878990212	18.2287057765	14.8772757363	9.6238790318	341.543903613
Slope for best linear fit (using linear regression)	-0.1417857143	-0.1039285714	-0.1	-0.1364285714	-0.1235714286
Multiplier for best logarithmic fit (using linear regression on logarithm)	0.9264883066	0.943265982	0.9409043005	0.9139328737	0.9291277283
$R^{2}$ for linear regression	0.9320240799	0.8710603193	0.8953042207	0.9496798042	0.9348138431