Lowest low fertility in South Korea: Differentials by women's education and locality: 1980 - 2010

We will examine fertility differentials by women's education and locality in South Korea for the period 1985 - 2010 using 10% samples of 2000, 2005, and 2010 censuses. Using birth history reconstruction method and computing period parity progression ratios for each year from 1985 to 2010, our analyses will be able to examine patterns of fertility differentials by women's education in detail, in terms of marriage, progression to first birth, to second birth, to third and higher order births, as well as period fertility rates. The main research questions we try to answer are: (1) how did the fertility differentials by women's education change during the 1985 - 2010 period? (2) to what extent do population composition by education explain the province level fertility differentials in fertility? and (3) what are the implications of these differentials on population composition in the future?