Deck 4: Fertility

Question 1

There are seven proximate determinants of fertility as developed by John Bongaarts. Which four are referred to as the primary determinants?

A) marriage, contraception, sterility, and postpartum infecundability
B) marriage, contraception, postpartum infecundability, and abortion
C) contraception, postpartum infecundability, conception, intrauterine mortality
D) contraception, postpartum infecundability, intrauterine mortality, and permanent sterility
E) marriage, abortion, divorce, and mortality

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Differentiate between the concepts of fertility and reproduction. Then, mention one demographic measure that is used to measure fertility and one that is used to measure reproduction.

Answer 2

Not Answer

Question 3

Which of the following birth/fertility rates is cross-sectional and measures the number of births in a population in a year per 1,000 individuals in that population?

A) crude birth rate
B) total fertility rate
C) general fertility rate
D) gross reproduction rate
E) net reproduction rate

Answer 3

A

Question 4

In the U.S. and in most other countries, the sex ratio at birth is about:

A) 100 boys per 100 girls
B) 90 boys per 100 girls
C) 105 boys per 100 girls
D) 85 boys per 100 girls
E) 120 boys per 100 girls

Question 5

Lay out some of the reasons why males have been excluded from the analysis of fertility. Then, list some of the reasons why male fertility should not be so excluded.

Question 6

Below are key terms that demographers use in studying fertility. Which term describes the biological capability of producing live births?

A) fertility
B) reproduction
C) childbearing
D) fecundity
E) postpartum fertility

Question 7

Replacement-level fertility refers to what?

A) The fertility rate at which a cohort of women has only enough children to replace themselves in the population.
B) The fertility rate at which the entire population is replaced by twice as many children.
C) The calculation of the AGFR for a cohort of women who all have at least one child.
D) The level of fertility for countries with skewed sex ratios at birth.
E) None of the above.

Question 8

Fertility rates of adolescent women are important because:

A) They are an indicator of future fertility trends
B) They are an indicator of women's relative status
C) They signify social problems in a population
D) They indicate adolescent male fertility rates
E) They are useful for comparing general fertility rates internationally

Question 9

Fertility analyses can be conducted in different ways. If a researcher analyzes the total fertility rate of U.S. women in the single year of 2016, what kind of an analysis is she conducting?

A) macro analysis
B) cohort analysis
C) cross-sectional analysis
D) cumulative analysis
E) multilevel analysis

Question 10

______ refers to the production of female births.

A) Fecundity
B) Reproduction
C) Male reproduction
D) Fertility
E) Sexual activity

Question 11

What are the proximate determinants of fertility? How many are there, and how do they work? Tell me which of the determinants are considered to be the major and most important ones.

Question 12

Why did the United States have relatively high fertility rates from 1790 through 1860?

A) The majority of the population did not use any form of birth control
B) Over one-half of the population was fecund
C) To replace all the people who died in the Revolutionary War
D) The majority of the population was semi-fecund
E) None of the above

Question 13

Describe and discuss for the U.S. population some of the key the patterns and trends for each of the following different aspects of fertility: adolescent fertility, nonmarital fertility and voluntarily childlessness.

Question 14

Calculate the general fertility rate when there was 20 million women aged 14-49 in the population in a specific year and there were 5 million births in the same year.

A) 50
B) 100
C) 150
D) 200
E) 250