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Title: Fertility trends explained, 2017 edition

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: There was a big drop in the U.S. fertility rate in 2017. As measured by the total fertility rate (TFR), which is a projection of lifetime births for the average woman based on one year’s data, the drop was 3.1%, from 1.82 projected births per woman to 1.76. (See this measure explained, and learn how to calculate it yourself, in my blockbuster video, “Total Fertility Rate.”) To put that change in perspective, here is the trend in TFR back to 1940, followed by a plot of the annual changes since 1971.

Url: https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2018/05/22/fertility-trends-explained/

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Authors: Cohen, Philip

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Fertility and Mortality

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