Sentence examples for fertility gap from inspiring English sources

The fertility gap was larger the higher the tsunami-related mortality was in the community.

He celebrates the fact that conservatives have more children than liberals and that this trend is increasing: the fertility gap between liberals and conservatives, he says, rose from 22.9% in 1974 to 41.5% in 2004.

But contrary to some of the fears of anti-immigration campaigners, the fertility gap is not widening but closing: the most recent figures show foreign-born mothers having fewer babies than they were, while the fertility rate of UK-born mothers continues to rise.

The fertility gap is related to personal or socio-economic factors which delay the start of childbearing, for example not having met a suitable partner, broken relationships, financial constraints, and competing educational, professional or personal ambitions (Mills et al., 2011).

The mean difference between the intended and realized family size, also called fertility gap, was estimated to be 0.35 children per woman in the European Union (EU) in 2006, varying from 0.28 in Germany and Austria to 0.71 in Finland (Sobotka and Lutz, 2010).

Agricultural production in Northern Ghana is dominated by smallholder farm systems, which are characterized by low inputs and low outputs, declining soil fertility, large yield gaps and limited adoption of agricultural technologies.

Aidmics hopes its test will help plug the gender gap in fertility tools and allow men to detect basic fertility issues discretely and quickly.

The situation of women and children is characterized by women's high fertility rate, a wide gap between men and women in terms of health, education and literacy and high maternal mortality.

Knowledge gaps about fertility issues have also been found among US, Finnish, Italian, Israeli and Canadian university students (Bretherick et al., 2010; Rovei et al., 2010; Hashiloni-Dolev et al., 2011; Virtala et al., 2011; Peterson et al., 2012).

According to the estimated age-specific fertility rates, the average generational gap between 1850 and 2000 was 28 years.

This paper addresses these gaps by comparing fertility desires, family planning practices and receipt of PNC services among HIV-positive and HIV-negative post partum women in Swaziland.