Release

Childbearing for women born in different years, England and Wales: 2021 and 2022

Release date: 1 February 2024 9:30am

Summary

The changing composition of families over time, comparing the fertility of women of the same age and the number of children they have had.

Publications

Data

  • Childbearing for women born in different years

    Annual analysis of fertility by cohort for women born in England and Wales. Cohort fertility analysis allows the fertility experience of a group of women sharing the same birth year (a “cohort”) to be traced through time and compared with other cohorts.

Methodology

Contact details

Name

Amanda Sharfman and Pamela Cobb

Email

pop.info@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 1329 444661

About the data

Accredited Official Statistics

These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:

  • meet user needs
  • are presented clearly and accessibly
  • are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest