SYD-3020 Midterm: StudyGuide2
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Fertility the actual production of live births (children) Macro analyses: use registration and census data to consider a population"s fertility. Micro analyses: use survey data to address individual-level fertility behaviors. Registration data provide a count of all births in a given year and comparison to prior years. Nchs reports counts of births for the variables on the birth certificate including: parents demographic, characteristics, infant health, and mother"s health care (private and public) The denominator includes every member of the population but not everyone in the population is at risk or giving birth. What makes the crude birth rate crude its denominator includes everyone in its population. Age-specific fertility rate: interpretation, recent trends in u. s. Interpretation: number of births per 1,000 women aged x. Downside: separate rate for every age (or age group) in 35-year female reproductive lifetime. Benefit: useful for looking at changes over time. When the asfrs are plotted, they usually work an inverted u .
