Mapping the Timing, Pace and Scale of the Fertility Transition in Brazil
Population and Development Review 36(2):283-307. 2010.

Joseph E Potter, University of Texas-Austin
Carl P Schmertmann, Florida State University
Renato M Assunção, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Suzana M Cavenaghi, Escola Nacional de Ciências Estatísticas

DOCUMENTS

• Model Description (.pdf format)

• Brazilian regions, Census TFR trends, sample sizes (.csv format)
• Shapefile Data
  • brazil_microregions_1960_2000.shp (0 KB)
  • brazil_microregions_1960_2000.shx (0 KB)
  • brazil_microregions_1960_2000.dbf (0 KB)

PROGRAMS

• brazil_logistic_ winbugs_code.txt (WinBUGS model file)
• brazil_logistic_winbugs.R (R program to run WinBUGS)

OUTPUT

• Complete Posterior Sample (12430 KB, from R save() command with gzip compression)
• Summary of Marginal Posterior Distributions (263 KB, from R save() command with gzip compression)

MAPS

• map_posterior_means_as_polygons.R (R program to create KML/Google-style maps)
• Google Map: Posterior Means of Fpre
• Google Map: Posterior Means of Fpost
• Google Map: Posterior Means of Starting Times
• Google Map: Posterior Means of Duration

SOFTWARE

• Download R
• Download WinBUGS

This page was created by Carl Schmertmann
Last modified on 18 Jan 2022 22:27 UTC