{"id":25111,"date":"2010-09-02T10:14:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T18:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=6124"},"modified":"2010-09-05T12:09:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T20:09:47","slug":"fertility-by-non-hispanic-white-ethnic-group-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/02\/fertility-by-non-hispanic-white-ethnic-group-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Fertility by non-Hispanic white ethnic group, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

In my post on American fertility rates by racial group<\/a> Mike Keesey asks<\/a>: ‘It\u2019d also be interesting to see what\u2019s going on within \u201cnon-Hispanic whites\u201d.’ One can explore this question in the GSS<\/a>. Let’s look at ancestry group (e.g., German, French, etc.), religion, belief in God, political ideology, intelligence and education, for non-Hispanic whites. The data is limited to the 2000s, and I also constrained to those age 45 and up. Then I looked at the “CHILDS” variable, which asks the respondent how many children they have. Taking the mean of this value gives us a sense of the rank order in fertility. Note that this is not total fertility rate.<\/strong> That should be clear from the values being well above 2 in most cases. Additionally, I recombined some categories, so that “British” is the amalgamation of English, Scottish and Welsh ancestry. The “Irish” class almost certainly includes both Scotch-Irish (doing the regional and religious breakdown this seems obvious), and the Irish without modifiers. For intelligence I used “WORDSUM”<\/a>. The variables I input into the GSS can be found at the bottom of the post so you can replicate.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<\/col>\n<\/col>\n<\/col>\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nMean # of children<\/strong><\/td>\nN<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ancestry<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
German<\/td>\n2.47<\/td>\n911<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
French<\/td>\n2.43<\/td>\n169<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nordic<\/td>\n2.22<\/td>\n277<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Irish<\/td>\n2.36<\/td>\n759<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Italian<\/td>\n2.18<\/td>\n311<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
British<\/td>\n2.26<\/td>\n1033<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Intelligence<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Low intelligence<\/td>\n2.45<\/td>\n287<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Average intelligence<\/td>\n2.39<\/td>\n1153<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Above average intelligence<\/td>\n2.19<\/td>\n709<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Highest educational attainment<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Less than high school<\/td>\n2.93<\/td>\n720<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
High school<\/td>\n2.37<\/td>\n2970<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Junior college<\/td>\n2.25<\/td>\n412<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bachelor<\/td>\n2.03<\/td>\n952<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Graduate<\/td>\n1.93<\/td>\n687<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Political ideology<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liberal<\/td>\n1.99<\/td>\n954<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moderate<\/td>\n2.37<\/td>\n1690<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Conservative<\/td>\n2.43<\/td>\n1855<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Religious preference<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Protestant<\/td>\n2.39<\/td>\n3355<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Catholic<\/td>\n2.53<\/td>\n1342<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jewish<\/td>\n1.83<\/td>\n155<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
No religion<\/td>\n1.78<\/td>\n639<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I believe much of the difference among white non-Hispanics by ancestry is caused by other variables. In particular, the low values for Italians is probably a function of their disproportionately urban residence patterns in comparison to German Americans. Other white ethnic groups (the sample sizes were smaller for these constraints) with a strong urban bias show the same pattern.<\/p>\n

To replicate, go to http:\/\/sda.berkeley.edu\/cgi-bin\/hsda?harcsda+gss08<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Under “Analysis” at the top left select “Comparison of Means.”<\/p>\n

Dependent: CHILDS<\/p>\n

Row: WORDSUM(r:0-4″Low intelligence”;5-7″Average intelligence”;8-10″Above average intelligence”) DEGREE GOD(r:1-2″Atheist and Agnostic”;3″Higher Power”;4-6″Believe in God”) polviews(r:1-3″Liberal”;4″Moderate”;5-7″Conservative”) RELIG ETHNIC(r:2,11″German”;3,10″French”;7,9,19,26″Nordic”;14″Irish”;15″Italian”;8,24″British”)<\/p>\n

German = Germany + Austria
\nFrench = France + French Canadian
\nNordic = Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland
\nBritish = Scottish, English and Welsh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my post on American fertility rates by racial group Mike Keesey asks: ‘It\u2019d also be interesting to see what\u2019s going on within \u201cnon-Hispanic whites\u201d.’ One can explore this question in the GSS. Let’s look at ancestry group (e.g., German, French, etc.), religion, belief in God, political ideology, intelligence and education, for non-Hispanic whites. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25111"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25502,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25111\/revisions\/25502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}