By Crystol Caesar Shaquille Elliot

 Definition of Fertility Rate  Factors influencing Fertility Rate  Video Depicting Factors  Measurement of Fertility Rate(Aspects)  Graph showing Total Fertility Rate  Replacement Fertility  Case Study Of Canada  References

What is Fertility Rate?

 The total fertility rate is referred to as the average number of children a woman is likely to have if she lives to the end of her child bearing age, based on current birth rates

 Status of Women  Perception of children as an impediment  Religion & Culture  Cost of Living  Advances in Technology  Families being more career-minded  Options given to woman- Policy

 General Fertility Rate (GFR)  Age Specific Fertility Rate (ASFR)  Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

 Number of live births per 1000 women age in a given year  Number of births/year * 1000 Number of women ages 15 to 49

 Number of births per year per 1000 women of a specific age (group)  Number of births to a woman age a *1000 Number of women age a

 The average number of children that would be born to a woman by the time she ended childbearing if she were to pass through all her childbearing years conforming to the age-specific fertility rates of a given year  Number of women * 1000 Number of births

 Average number of daughters that would be born to a woman if she passed through her life-time from birth to the end of her reproductive years conforming to the age- specific fertility and mortality rates of a given year

 Replacement fertility is the total fertility rate at which women would have only enough children to replace themselves and their partner.  Replacement Level Fertility is said to have been reached when NRR=1.0

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 Canada can be considered as an MEDC which from past studies it can be seen that countries falling in this bracket tend to have a low fertility rate. In 2002 Canada recorded a fertility rate of It however rose to 1.59 in 2006

 Reasons for low fertility rate  Gender, work and childbearing Low participation by men in household with children  Work & childbearing TFR fast declining as women’s employment rate was increasing (1960 to 1985)  Childbearing by marital status, employment status & family structure Competition with other life goals e.g. careers Achievement of ideal family size

 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Data Sources and Crude Indicators of Fertility  Google images  Case Study (Canada) : Low fertility rate in Canada –  Geography : An Integrated Approach, David Waugh