GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Marriage, Social Inequality
11 Apr 2018
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Population is understood with reference to two factors: fertility (births) and. True fertility: need to account for: the number of women in the population, the number of women of child-bearing age (ie. 15-49, general fertility rate (or fertility) (gfr): Gfr= (b/p f-15-49) x 1000: total fertility rate (tfr): Average number of children a woman will have over her life time. Replacement rate (ie. in order for a woman to replace herself and her partner (in. Canada) she will need to have 2. 1 children) Fertility rates are influenced by a variety of factors, many of which are social-cultural in nature. Biological: age (younger population= higher fertility rate, nutritional well-being (access to food because of drought, war, etc. ) Economic: economic development (large families= social safety net) Cultural: marriage (role of marriage in society, nuptiality rates, age at marriage, contraceptive use (including abortion) Cdr does not take into account for the age of the population: infant mortality rate (imr):
