Fertility rates by age and income level

New York Minute, issue number 69, September 2015

Definitions

Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

The number of children who would be born per woman (or per 1,000 women) if she/they were to pass through the childbearing years bearing children according to a current schedule of age-specific fertility rates.

Age Specific Fertility Rate (ASFR)

The number of births occurring during a given year or reference period per 1,000 women of reproductive age classified in an age groups

Income

Total household income of the household of which the woman is a member

Data Sources

• Microlevel data from the single year ACS PUMS (2013)
  See http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/public_use_microdata_sample/ for more information on the ACS PUMS
• Data retrieved using Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
  Steven Ruggles, J. Trent Alexander, Katie Genadek, Ronald Goeken, Matthew B. Schroeder, and Matthew Sobek. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series: Version 5.0 [Machine-readable database]. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2010.

• Total Fertility Rate
• Age Specific Fertility Rates

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