The Total Fertility Rate Measures

question 14

Multiple Choice

The total fertility rate measures:

• A) the total number of children born in a population.
• B) the total number of surviving children that a woman will have in her lifetime.
• C) the total number of children ever born to a woman at the end of her reproductive career.
• D) the total number of projected children ever born per woman if ASFRs do not change.

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