What would be the Gross reproductive rate for a region with a total feility rate of 6, with Male: Female ratio of 1?
Correct Answer: 3
Description: Gross reproduction rate is the average number of girls that would be born to a woman if she experiences the current feility pattern throughout her reproductive spanIt will be half of the total feility rate, so 3ie, in her lifetime she gives bih to 6 children of which 3 are girls (Ref:- Park. 23rd ed. Page no 489)
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