HaDPop Flashcards
What is Crude Birth Rate (CBR)?
The number of live births per 1000 population
What is General Fertility Rate (GFR)?
The number of live births per 1000 fertile women aged 15-44
What is the Total Period Fertility Rate (TPFR)?
The average number of children born to a hypothetical woman in her life time, if age-specific rates applied to her throughout her life.
What is fertility?
The realisation of fecundity as live births
What is fecundity?
The physical ability to reproduce.
What is a census useful for? (3)
Allocation of resources
Projection of populations
Trends in populations
What is fertility increased, and decreased by?
Increased by- increased sexual activity
Decreased by- contraception and abortion
What is fecundity decreased by? (2)
Hysterectomy and sterilisation
What is Crude Death Rate (CDR)?
The number of deaths per 1000 population
What is age-specific death rate?
The number of deaths per 1000 in the age group
What is Standardised Mortality Ratio (SMR)?
How is it calculated?
A comparison of he number of observed and expected deaths if age-sex distribution of populations were identical.
Calculated by observed/expected X100
Define incidence
The number of new cases arising
Define prevalence
The number of existing cases
Define Census
The simultaneous recording of demographic data by the government, at a particular time, applicable to all persons in a defined area.
