| Abstract: | To date, tests of the minority-group status hypothesis relating to fertility have embodied a number of shortcomings—often in the nature of the data used, sometimes in the techniques of analysis, as well. Australian data particularly suited to a test of this hypothesis support it, but only when minority status is combined with pronatalism. In the absence of pronatalism, minority/majority fertility differences can instead be readily accounted for in terms of group differences either in socioeconomic composition or in the distribution of more specifically individual attributes. |
