SOCI 234 Lecture 9: Lecture 9 - Fertility Measures and Concepts
6 Feb 2019
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Demographic transition framework is prominent in demography. But the empirical evidence does not always support it. And there are big (problematic) assumptions embedded in it. The belief that all countries develop along a similar trajectory. Looking at countries today and saying how they are illustrative of how other places were in the past. They believe that all countries are on the same path. "france 200 years ago looked like africa today" when maybe talking about child marriage. One of the assumptions is embedded in the dtt. It is crude because it is simple. Denominator is not limited to population at risk. Period measures - describing the circumstances happening at one point in time. The census gives us the denominator and vital statistics gives us the numerator. Marriage = cbm = m/p x 1000. Anything that can be counted can be measured with a crude rate. But all measures are influenced by age and sex (and marriage) structure of the population.
