A Brief Comparison of Recent Estimates of the Total Fertility Rate for Botswana

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Title:	A Brief Comparison of Recent Estimates of the Total Fertility Rate for Botswana
Author:	Brunborg, Helge
Year:	1990
Periodical:	Botswana Notes and Records (ISSN 0525-5090)
Volume:	22
Pages:	91-98
Language:	English
Notes:	biblio. refs., ills.
Geographic terms:	Botswana Southern Africa
Subjects:	fertility Women's Issues Health and Nutrition Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) Fertility and Infertility demography Birth rate fertility rate
External links:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/40979858 http://search.proquest.com/pao/docview/1291916865
Abstract:	Births are very important for the population growth of a country and good estimates of the birth rate are required to make reliable population projections. The purpose of this paper is to look critically at the available estimates of fertility in Botswana, and to see if it is possible to draw any conclusions about its development. The currently available fertility data for Botswana come from three different sources: the population censuses of 1971 and 1981, and the Family Health Survey of 1984. These yield estimates of the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of 6.5, 7.1 and 6.5 respectively. However, the estimates for 1971 and 1981 are not fully comparable since somewhat different methods were used. A reestimation of the fertility rates for 1971 and 1981, using exactly the same method for both years, yields a revised TFR for 1971 of 6.8. Bibliogr., notes, ref.