Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to all our colleagues for their extensive support to the HFC project. We acknowledge the important contribution of the project co-founder and former project director Joshua R. Goldstein. We thank the current MPIDR directors Mikko Myrskylä and Emilio Zagheni and the current VID directors Wolfgang Lutz and Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz for their support. For computer assistance, we are grateful to Dirk Vieregg (MPIDR) and Peter Wilhelm (MPIDR).

The HFC project greatly relies on the network of statistical agencies, researchers, and other institutional and individual data holders that help us locate and access various data or who provide data themselves. We thankfully acknowledge all such contributions.

We express our gratitude to the Population Division at the United Nations Department of Economics and Social Affairs for the valuable suggestions and continuous cooperation on the project, in particular, to Ann Biddlecom, Vladimira Kantorova and Patrick Gerland.

We appreciate the support of the Institute National d’Etudes Demographiques (INED, Paris) in accessing and obtaining various fertility data in the institute’s library.

We are sincerely grateful to Jean-Paul Sardon (former INED, Paris) for his valuable contribution of data from the ODE collection and general advice on the project.

We also thank Carl P. Schmertmann (Center for Demography and Population Health, Florida State University) for providing us with his original scripts for the CS estimator method and valuable advice.

Grateful thanks go to Everton E. C. Lima (University of Campinas - Population Studies Center, São Paulo), who is a collaborator of the HFC team and has been incredibly helpful in coordinating data collection in Latin American countries.

Other individual contributors

Argentina


Austria


Brazil


Belgium


Chile


Croatia


Cuba


Czechia


Germany


India


Italy


Mexico


Moldova


Mongolia


Romania


Slovakia


Switzerland


Uruguay