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Abstract

Family sizes of children and family sizes of women in Brazil. This paper studies completed parity distributions for all Brazilian women above 45 by education, face end region of residence. The information that covered cohorts of women born from 1906 to 1935 is also used to compare mean family and mean sibship sizes, and to study changes in the concentration of reproduction independent of the leveI of fertility. Among the findings we noted that completed Brazilian families in the 80's had an average of five children and the mean sibship size was eight.