Hobcraft (1996) argues that the timely use of such measures would have allowed demographers to detect the temporary character of both the baby boom and baby bust, thus avoiding the sometimes ridiculous performance of fertility forecasting and analysis during this period.2 The relationship between life table measures of fertility and tempo adjustment is a recurrent topic in much of the recent debate on the subject (Nì Bhrolcháin, 1992; Rallu and (footnote continued)
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