The table below presents the number of children ever born to women aged 40-44 years
in Australia for each year the information was collected since 1981. Summaries the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.
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Number of children ever born, Women aged 40–44 years |
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Four or |
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One |
Two |
Three |
more |
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None |
child |
children |
children |
children |
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year |
% |
% |
% |
% |
% |
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2006 |
15.9 |
13.2 |
38.3 |
21.5 |
11.0 |
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1996 |
12.8 |
11.3 |
38.2 |
24.6 |
13.1 |
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1986 |
9.7 |
8.7 |
35.6 |
27.0 |
18.9 |
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1981 |
8.5 |
7.6 |
29.0 |
27.4 |
27.6 |
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Model answer
The provided table depicts the
babies’ figure which gave birth by the women whose age was between 40 to 44
years in Australia for the years 1981, 1986, 1996 and 2001.
Overall, the trend of having
three or more children among the middle age female was considerably decreased
at the end. While the women who have had none, one or two offspring their
number increased continuously till the last year.
Women who have had 2 children in
the age of 40 to 44 were 29% which was highest ratio in the year 1981. While in
the same year females who like to have only 1 child were lowest in number and
they were 7.6 percent. After 4 years the entire ratios were changed except the
ladies who gave birth to three babies who experienced fractional change. Women
who had none, one child, two children their ratio showed fraction was up surged
respectively 9.7, 8.7 and 35.6. The only category which had diminution was
women with four or more children that were 18.9%. In 1996 and 2006, the proportions of women
aged 40-44 years who had given birth to two children were almost identical,
though the proportions that had given birth to three children or to four or
more children had decreased. In these more recent periods, women were more
likely to have had two children than three or more children – a trend that was
most marked in the most recent period (38.2% vs 24.6% in 1996; 38.3% vs 21.5%
in 2006). While two-child families now predominate, the number of women who had
given birth to only one child increased progressively from 7.6% in 1981 to
13.2% in 2006. In 1981, similar proportions of women aged in their early
forties were childless or had given birth to only one child (8.5% and 7.6%
respectively). By 2006, 15.9% of women were childless and 13.2% had given birth
to only one child
