{"id":9102,"date":"2019-08-12T15:57:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T10:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9102"},"modified":"2019-08-12T15:57:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T10:27:39","slug":"in-reducing-fertility-a-little-education-may-be-worse-than-none-shows-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-reducing-fertility-a-little-education-may-be-worse-than-none-shows-data\/","title":{"rendered":"In reducing fertility, a little education may be worse than none, shows data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>According to conventional wisdom,the higher the educational level of a woman, the lower the total number of children she will have.<\/li><li>However,the official data on the total fertility rate(TFR) or the average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime shows the connection may be more complex.\u00a0<\/li><li>The data shows that the culture of a state might be a greater determinant of fertility with illiterate rural women in Tamil Nadu having a lower fertility rate than urban graduates in Uttar Pradesh.<\/li><li>Further,the data also shows a consistent pattern across states of illiterate women and those with no formal education having lower fertility rates than those with below primary level education.<\/li><li>For instance,Bihar which is a high fertility state,the TFR of women who have not completed primary schooling is 4.4 compared to 3.7 for illiterate women.<\/li><li>Similarly,in Odisha with an overall low fertility rate of just 1.9,the TFR of illiterate women was 2 compared to a TFR of 3.6-3.5 among those with primary level schooling or below.<\/li><li>At the all-India level,the TFR for women with below primary education was 3.1 compared to 2.9 for illiterate women and 2.4 for those without formal education.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to conventional wisdom,the higher the educational level of a woman, the lower the total number of children she will have. However,the official data on the total fertility rate(TFR) or the average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime shows the connection may be more complex.\u00a0 The data shows that the culture&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-reducing-fertility-a-little-education-may-be-worse-than-none-shows-data\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In reducing fertility, a little education may be worse than none, shows data<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[1884],"class_list":["post-9102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-total-fertility-rate","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704920982},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}