Self-assessment questions (cont.)
Question 2
Table shows Bongaarts’ proximate determinants of fertility model parameters and TFRs in Columbia, Senegal and Kazakhstan.
Please calculate the parameters and enter your answers in the input areas based on the other statistics. Assume that total fecundity is 15.3. Click the Go button or hit the Enter key on your keyboard to check the result.
| Country | Index of marriage (Cm) | Index of contraception (Cc) | Index of postpartum infecundability (Ci) | Index of abortion (Ca) |
TFR | Reported TFR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia 1995 |
0.36 | 0.82 | 1.0 | 2.39 | 3.0 | Reveal | |
| Senegal 1997 |
0.71 | 0.91 | 1.0 | 5.73 | 5.7 | Reveal | |
| Kazakhstan 1996 |
0.50 | 0.52 | 0.76 | 1.0 | 2.5 | Reveal |
Source: Rutstein (2002)
The correct answer is: Cm = TFR/(15.3 × Cc × Ci × Ca). Thus, 2.39/ (15.3 × 0.36 × 0.82 × 1.0) = 0.53
The correct answer is: Ci = TFR/(15.3 × Cm × Cc × Ca), 5.73/ (15.3 × 0.71 × 0.91 × 1.0) = 0.58
The correct answer is: 15.3 × 0.50 × 0.52 × 0.76 × 1.0=3.02
Correct. Cm = TFR/(15.3 × Cc × Ci × Ca). Thus, 2.39/ (15.3 × 0.36 × 0.82 × 1.0) = 0.53
Sorry that is not right. Please calculate again.
Correct. Ci = TFR/(15.3 × Cm × Cc × Ca), 5.73/ (15.3 × 0.71 × 0.91 × 1.0) = 0.58
That is incorrect, sorry.
Correct. 15.3 × 0.50 × 0.52 × 0.76 × 1.0=3.02
Not quite right, sorry!