Little is known about the reproductive behavior of the population in insular Greece because of the lack of reliable and unintermittent time series of vital statistics. By applying methods used in historical demography and by indirectly estimating demographic indexes from census returns we try to overcome data scarcity. Substantial differences were found between the islands and mainland Greece. Differences were also found between different groups of islands, with the North Aegean being more conservative as far as the procreative ethics are concerned. Out of wedlock childbearing is less common in North Aegean islands than in Dodecanese or in the Cyclades.

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1920-2016 年爱琴海群岛的繁殖：长期趋势和近期好转

由于缺乏可靠和不间断的生命统计时间序列，人们对希腊岛国人口的生殖行为知之甚少。通过应用历史人口学中使用的方法并通过从人口普查回报间接估计人口指标，我们试图克服数据稀缺性。发现这些岛屿和希腊大陆之间存在重大差异。不同岛屿群之间也存在差异，北爱琴海在生育伦理方面更为保守。与多德卡尼斯群岛或基克拉泽斯群岛相比，北爱琴海岛屿的非婚生子生育率较低。