Fertility Measures without definitions
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- Created on: 11-09-16 20:54
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- Fertility Measures
- Crude Birth Rate (CBR)
- Total number of live births per thousand of the population per year.
- No account of the age or gender
- Simple and widely used
- Total number of live births per thousand of the population per year.
- General Fertility Rate
- Total number of live births per thousand women in normal reproductive age (15-44) per year.
- Deals with females in a specific age group- more relaible than CBR
- Total number of live births per thousand women in normal reproductive age (15-44) per year.
- Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
- average number of children a women will have during her reproductive years (assuming she will live that long)
- TFR- lower in MEDCs so reliable measure of development
- average number of children a women will have during her reproductive years (assuming she will live that long)
- Age Specific Fertility Rate
- Number of live births per thousand women within specific age bands/yr.
- In some LEDCs women have children at early age some makes this a reliable indicator.
- Number of live births per thousand women within specific age bands/yr.
- Net Reproduction Rate (NRR)
- Average number of daughters borm per women. An NNR of 1 means the population is replacing itself
- Crude Birth Rate (CBR)
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