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| Data: | Fertility rate, total (births per woman) | ||||||||
| Year: | 1960 - 2013 | ||||||||
| Country: | Philippines | ||||||||
| Source: | World Bank (the information in this section is direct quotation from World Bank development data) | ||||||||
| Series Code: | SP.DYN.TFRT.IN | ||||||||
| Topic: | Health: Reproductive health | ||||||||
| Short Definition: | 0 | ||||||||
| Long Definition: | Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with current age-specific fertility rates. | ||||||||
| Unit of Measurement: | 0 | ||||||||
| Periodicity: | Annual | ||||||||
| Base Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Reference Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Aggregation method: | Weighted average | ||||||||
| Limitations and exceptions: | 0 | ||||||||
| Notes from original source: | 0 | ||||||||
| General Comments: | Relevance to gender indicator: it can indicate the status of women within households and a woman’s decision about the number and spacing of children. | ||||||||
| Original Source: | (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database. | ||||||||
| Statistical concept and methodology: | Reproductive
health is a state of physical and mental well-being in relation to the
reproductive system and its functions and processes. Means of achieving
reproductive health include education and services during pregnancy and
childbirth, safe and effective contraception, and prevention and treatment of
sexually transmitted diseases. Complications of pregnancy and childbirth are
the leading cause of death and disability among women of reproductive age in
developing countries. Total fertility rates are based on data on registered live births from vital registration systems or, in the absence of such systems, from censuses or sample surveys. The estimated rates are generally considered reliable measures of fertility in the recent past. Where no empirical information on age-specific fertility rates is available, a model is used to estimate the share of births to adolescents. For countries without vital registration systems fertility rates are generally based on extrapolations from trends observed in censuses or surveys from earlier years. |
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| Development relevance: | 0 | ||||||||
