[Prokopton]

"One often hears that the high TFR in France is mostly due to very fecund immigrants, but there is precious little solid data on that as far as I know. I wish the data were better."



Table 2 - Total period fertility rate, 1991-1998,by birthplace
Average number of children per woman


All 1.72
Women born in France 1.65
Immigrant women 2.5

This is older data but my information is that it is considerably worse now.

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:8U1PLQnjvjQJ:www.ined.fr/englishversion/publications/pop_et_soc/pesa400.pdf+immigrant+fertility+france&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=6

[untenured]

That's a terrific link; Table 3 appears to be the most informative. It may somewhat understate the difference between racial groups, in that someone born in France of Algerian parents, e.g., is counted as "native-born" for purposes of the survey.

Having said that, the whole point of the paper appears to be that most existing research overstates the difference between foreign- and native-born fertility in France.

Unfortunately (and unavoidably, probably), the data stop in 1998.