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Age specific fertility rate [message #9786] Wed, 18 May 2016 05:23 Go to next message
Mohammad Nazmul Hoq is currently offline  Mohammad Nazmul Hoq
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Please, give me the computation procedure of TFR, ASFR and mean fertility of different demographic characteristics like as mean fertility in urban, rural etc

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Re: Age specific fertility rate [message #9791 is a reply to message #9786] Wed, 18 May 2016 20:48 Go to previous message
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This should help - courtesy of fertility rate hero Bruno Schoumaker: http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol28/38/

Then you can see this thread for a bit more on using tfr2 for subgroups:

http://userforum.dhsprogram.com/index.php?t=tree&goto=93 37&S=b59149c57853e97af095c94b1e0a25a4&srch=tfr2#page _top

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