PAM 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Infertility, Miscarriage, Stillbirth

• School: Cornell University
• Department: Policy, Analysis and Management
• Course: PAM 2030
• Professor: Lichter

Document Summary

Demography is the study of size, distribution, composition of the population , changes therein, and the components of change. Crude in the sense that we are talking about the entire population in the denominator general fertility rate. Better measure because it excludes older and younger women. age-specific fertility. 1 how fertility rates are specific to a particular group. Ex: teens, young adults, etc total fertility rate (completed family size) Total fertility rate: the number on average have an x amount of children if they live their lives according to current age specific fertility rates. Measures refer to a group of women born in the same year (or group of years) Period measures measures refer to a time period e. g. cmr for one year- 2009. Conceptual issues reflects biological and social factors choice involves two parents multi-births (twins) denominator is more difficult. 1 not everyone have babies more than once- sequential decisions making intermediate variable framework.