Having children in Italy for foreign women: From the construction of new longitudinal data to the analysis of behavior in a short term period

The official sample surveys are not generally representative for foreigners, which increased the demand for reliable administrative records as sources of statistical information on migrants, especially if the focus is on demographic behaviors. To overcome the limits of existing data and to give proper importance to the information from administrative sources we have implemented a record linkage between of different datasets and of different years. Our main interest is to link the fertility behaviors of women with their migration history. Hence, we will focus on the Survey on Live Births of the Italian resident population and on information from the residence permits of the Italian Ministry of the Interior. The main novelty of this work is the use of stock and flow data from administrative registers to construct a longitudinal dataset that includes information on births and migrations in a determinate interval of years. This information was missing until now in the Italian context. The possibility of recovering information allows us to analyze the risk of having one or more children in the period considering also the migration history.