Dictionary of population terms
total fertility rate
Русский:
коэффициент суммарной рождаемости
Français: indicateur
conjoncturel de fécondité, nombre moyen d'enfants
par femme
- demographic coefficient, indicator
of average number of children born alive to one woman during her
reproductive period conditioned that each age fertility is at the
level of fertility in a given calendar year.
Initial data for calculation of TFR - age-specific fertility rates.
The method of TFR calculation is summing up of age-specific fertility
rates over the fertility ages (usually from 15 to 49):
TFR = ,
where ASFR(x) - fertility rate per 1000 women aged x (for
1-year age intervals). If 5-year age groups are used, the sum obtained
should be multiplied by 5.
Computations of TFR for population of Russia and its regions is
conducted by Federal State Statistics
Service (Rosstat, the former Goskomstat), TFR is published
in The
demographic yearbook of Russia. Sources of data on TFR for separate
countries of the world: Recent Demographic
Devolopments. Council of Europe, databases UN
World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision Population Database,
INED. Base de données.
La conjoncture des pays développés en chiffres.
See also: age-specific fertility rates.
The information-analytical system is developed under
the support of the Russian foundation
for humanitarian research,
project 04-02-12003-в "Development of information system of
social-demographic data with the Internet access".
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