Abstract: Fertility in human population is one of the principal components of population dynamics in any country’s population. To have a proper understanding of total fertility rate in Nigeria, as it varies from region to region, a study must be carried out to know those variations. This article is one of those research works that was done to correlate the fertility rate of the North-east and South-west of the country. These were achieved by retrieved data from Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS), 2013 information on the characteristics of respondents which include: age, sex, marital status and education, other data was on fertility rate. The findings revealed that rural areas have high fertility rate than urban areas and posit to have an adolescent high rate of fertility. A significant different were achieved at 95% degree of freedom in its comparism of the two region. Thereby, suggesting positive ways to bring a general decline to fertility growth to the country.
Keywords: Fertility, Total Fertility Rate (TFR).
Title: A Correlation Analysis of Fertility Rates In Southern and North-Eastern-Region of Nigeria
Author: Gwanshak Joshua Yohanna
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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