SOCI 234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Miscarriage, Peer Pressure, Love Marriage
29 Dec 2017
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Understand and compare major measures of fertility. Critical understanding of theories of fertility change. Sometimes this is not all we need to know so we would want more refined measures. Crude: denominator is not limited to at risk population (always look at the total population ) Period measures exists for one period in time. Snapshot of what is happening right now. Crude rates are influenced by age and by sex structures of the population. Would want to look at more refined measures: Limit the denominator (cid:3042)(cid:3040)(cid:3032)(cid:3041) (cid:3028)(cid:3032)(cid:3031) 1(cid:2873) (cid:2872)(cid:2873) (cid:883)(cid:882)(cid:882)(cid:882)this will get rid of old and young women as well as men (cid:3029)(cid:3045)(cid:3047) (cid:3046) When summed they become total rates. Info reflects likely head of age/sex population structure. Fecundity physiological (ability) to have a child and give birth so this is your potential. Macro level: what is happening at country level and with natural increase, reveal behavior of individual behavior of women the micro level.
