The table below presents the number of children ever born to women aged 40-44 years ni Australia for each year the information was colected since 1981. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The table shows the data collected for Australian
women
between the ages of 40 to 44, categorized with respect to the number of Use synonyms
children
they gave birth to, starting from none to 4 or more across four different years since 1981.
Use synonyms
Overall
, most Linking Words
women
gave birth to two Use synonyms
children
and Use synonyms
this
increased consistently each year. The share decreased significantly for the ones having 3 or more Linking Words
children
Use synonyms
whereas
it increased for the ones staying single or having a single child between 1981 and 2006.
In 1981, 29% of the Linking Words
women
gave birth to two infants making Use synonyms
this
the dominant choice which continued to be the case till 2006 (38.2%) increasing throughout the period. Linking Words
This
upward trend was followed by those bearing one or zero Linking Words
children
, each with a share of 7.6 and 8.5 in 1981 respectively, to 13.2 and 15.9 in 2006, respectively.
Contrarily, despite starting out with the second highest percentage of 27.6 in 1981, Use synonyms
women
with 4 or more Use synonyms
children
dropped in numbers (18.9%) and were overtaken by those having 3 in 1986 (27%). Use synonyms
While
the downward trend continued for both the categories, Linking Words
women
with 3 Use synonyms
children
stayed ahead in numbers in 1996 and 2001 as well, Use synonyms
whereas
4 or more Linking Words
children
now became the rarity with only 11% of the Use synonyms
women
going for it in 2001 accounting for the least share among all.Use synonyms
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Vocabulary: Replace the words women, children with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "gave" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "trend" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 2 times.
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