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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
TABLE OF CONTENTSDefinition of Fertility RateFactors influencing Fertility RateVideo Depicting FactorsMeasurement of Fertility
Rate(Aspects)Graph showing Total Fertility RateReplacement FertilityCase Study Of CanadaReferences
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 STUDY (CANADA)
Canada can be considered as an MEDC which from past studies it can be seen that countries falling in this bracket tend to have a low fertility rate. In 2002 Canada recorded a fertility rate of 1.51. It however rose to 1.59 in 2006
CASE STUDY CONT’D Reasons for low fertility rate
Gender, work and childbearing Low participation by men in household with
childrenWork & childbearing
TFR fast declining as women’s employment rate was increasing (1960 to 1985)
Childbearing by marital status, employment status & family structure Competition with other life goals e.g. careers Achievement of ideal family size
REFERENCES Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health: Data Sources and Crude Indicators of Fertility
Google images Case Study (Canada) : Low fertility rate
in Canada – [email protected] Geography : An Integrated Approach,
David Waugh