total fertility
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftotalandfertility
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total
adjective
uk/ˈtəʊ.təl/us/ˈtoʊ.t̬əl/
including ...
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fertility
noun[U]
uk/fəˈtɪl.ə.ti/us/fɚˈtɪl.ə.t̬i/
(of animals and plants) the quality of being able to produce young ...
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(Definition oftotalandfertilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thetotalfertilityhas more than doubled.
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Thetotalfertilityrate is then obtained.
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Totalfertilityrate was 5.51 children born per woman.
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It is unlikely that this heralds a decline in thetotalfertilityof these cohorts.
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A multiple regression analysis was carried out oftotalfertilityrate on relevant independent variables.
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At present (1972) women aged 30-49 still account for 30 % oftotalfertility.
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The analyses are based principally ontotalfertilityrates by occupation.
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Thetotalfertilityrate has continued to go down, and reached 1.25 in 2005.
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This showed a very low zero order correlation coefficient withtotalfertilityrate, and was not considered worth including.
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Thetotalfertilityrate is the average number of live births per woman aged between 15 and 49.
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Thetotalfertilityrate was four children per woman and the crude birth rate was 32 per 1,000.
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Thetotalfertilityrate is lower in small countries, where we use small to denote land area rather than population.
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As stated at the beginning, thetotalfertilityrate became lower than the previous record in 1989.
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Totalfertilityof 0.23% in triploid males indicated high sterility when compared with that in the diploid control (97.75%).
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For example, why was the observedtotalfertilityrate about 5 or 6 rather than 2 or 3?
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Marital fertility rates refer to fertility among currently married women, and fertility among the entire population is better indicated by thetotalfertilityrate.
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Between 1947 and 1957,totalfertilityrates fell by more than half - the first such experience in the history of mankind.
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For example, in the discussion of fertility decline and demographic transition, thetotalfertilityrate or the average number of births have been widely used.
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Thetotalfertilityrate is lower in island nations than non-island nations, and in small land-area nations than large land-area nations.
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Thetotalfertilityrate is then obtained by summing the age-specific fertility rates at each age from 15 to 45 (or 49).
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To establish whether these trends reflect actual changes in fertility, thetotalfertilityrate and the gross and net reproduction rates are examined.
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The total population is 3-8 million, the crude birth rate is 47-5 per 1000 and thetotalfertilityrate is 6-1.
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Further insight into these changes may be gained by studying the changes in agespecific, age-marital-specific, general andtotalfertilityrates.
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Since extramarital births up until 1945 were less than 5% of the total births, the effect ontotalfertilityis negligible.
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It is not known how thetotalfertilityof cohorts marrying before 1936 compares with that of cohorts marrying after 1936.
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