GGR111H5 Lecture Notes - Total Fertility Rate, Infant Mortality, Population Pyramid
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Do not consider population structure, based upon total population ex. A lot of old ppl= death rate high, young ppl= birth rate high. Tfr is the number of children that would be born to each woman if during her child bearing years she bore children at the current years rate for women of that age". If we want to consider fertility we want to consider who is producing children in society, narrowing into female in the reproductive age. Considers the structure of population considers the attitude toward fertility. * society thinks that all couples should have children when married. (profs example irland) In order to replace a population you need a tfr of 2. 1 to 2. 5 per women is considered the replacement level. What is the relevance of this data . In many respect is better to have pop. Age profile of the population- old population less birth rate. Culture of the population-is everyone having 6 children ex.
