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Fertility Rate. By Crystol Caesar Shaquille Elliot. Table of Contents. Definition of Fertility Rate Factors influencing Fertility Rate Video Depicting Factors Measurement of Fertility Rate(Aspects) Graph showing Total Fertility Rate Replacement Fertility Case Study Of Canada
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Fertility Rate By Crystol Caesar Shaquille Elliot
Table of Contents • Definition of Fertility Rate • Factors influencing Fertility Rate • Video Depicting Factors • Measurement of Fertility Rate(Aspects) • Graph showing Total Fertility Rate • Replacement Fertility • Case Study Of Canada • References
Fertility Rate What is Fertility Rate?
Definition of fertility rate • The total fertility rate is referred to as the average number of children a woman is likely to have if she lives to the end of her child bearing age, based on current birth rates
Factors influencing fertility rate • Status of Women • Perception of children as an impediment • Religion & Culture • Cost of Living • Advances in Technology • Families being more career-minded • Options given to woman- Policy
Measurements of Aspects of fertility rate • General Fertility Rate (GFR) • Age Specific Fertility Rate (ASFR) • Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
General fertility rate (gfr) • Number of live births per 1000 women age 15-49 in a given year • Number of births/year * 1000 Number of women ages 15 to 49
Age specific fertility rate • Number of births per year per 1000 women of a specific age (group) • Number of births to a woman age a *1000 Number of women age a
Total fertility rate (tfr) • The average number of children that would be born to a woman by the time she ended childbearing if she were to pass through all her childbearing years conforming to the age-specific fertility rates of a given year • Number of women * 1000 Number of births
Net reproduction rate (Nrr) • Average number of daughters that would be born to a woman if she passed through her life-time from birth to the end of her reproductive years conforming to the age-specific fertility and mortality rates of a given year
Replacement fertility • Replacement fertility is the total fertility rate at which women would have only enough children to replace themselves and their partner. • Replacement Level Fertility is said to have been reached when NRR=1.0
Case studies ( canada & Africa)Low and high Canada Africa
references • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health • Google images • Case Study (Canada) :-rbeaujot@uwo.ca • Geography : An Integrated Approach, David Waugh