“Nuptiality and Fertility of Origin Groups in Israel”, 1960 ():
This paper sets out to describe patterns of nuptiality and fertility in Israel. It starts with a description of these phenomena in the Jewish population as a whole, though evidently this is merely an average of the patterns in the very varied components of the population. It then goes on to deal in detail with individual origin groups, and finally reviews some data on trends in nuptiality and fertility which are connected with length of stay in the country.
We have attempted to describe separately the underlying patterns of demographic phenomena, and the observed rates in different periods. Rates are given to considerable fluctuations from year to year, but we assume that some underlying ‘true’ pattern exists, and we have tried to disentangle it from the fluctuations.
Data on Nuptiality: The present analysis of nuptiality is based mainly on the data of 1953, and also on the 1948 Census (Registration of the Population). A great boom of marriages occurred between these two dates—see Table 8—apparently caused by the influx of a surplus of unmarried immigrants, as well as by unusually high marriage rates.
These effects had been largely reduced by 1953, when rates were apparently little above normal. No analyses have yet been undertaken for later years.