The Effect of Fertility Rate On Population Growth, In Bumanya Sub-County Kaliro District from 1960-2018.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION

APPROVAL ii

DEDICATION iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iv

LIST OF ACRONYMS V

LIST OF TABLES vi

LIST OF FIGURES vii

TABLE OF CONTENTS viii

ABSTRACT xi

CHAPTER ONE 1

1.0 Introduction 1

1.1 Background of the study 2

1.1.1 Historical background 2

1.1.2 Theoretical Background 4

1.1.3 Conceptual Background 6

1.1.4 Contextual Background 8

1.2 Problem Statement 10

1.3 Purpose of the study 11

1.4 Research Objective 11

1.5 Research Questions 11

1.6 Research Hypothesis 12

1.7 Scope of the Study 12

1.7. lGeographical Scope 12

1.7.2 Content scope 12

1.7.3 Time Scope 12

1.8 Significant of the study 12

1.9 Defining of significance terms 13

CHAPTER TWO 15

LITERATURE REVIEW 15

2.0 Introduction 15

2.1 Theoretical Review 15

2.2 Conceptual review 23

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2.3. 1 The trend of fertility rate in Kaliro District 23

2.3.2 Trend of population growth in kaliro district 25

2.3.3 Population growth and fertility rate 28

CHAPTER THREE 30

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 30

3.0 Introduction 30

3.1 Study design 30

3.2 Sampling method 30

3.3 Sample size 31

3.4 The model 31

3.5 Data sources 32

3.6 Data collection method 32

3.7Dataanalysis 32

CHAPTER FOUR 34

DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION 34

4.0 Introduction 34

4.1 The Trend of Fertility Rate in Kaliro 34

4.2 The trend of population growth in Kaliro 37

4.41 Testing for stationarity of the variables 39

4.8 Investigation of the significance of the study hypothesis 44

CHAPTER FIVE 45

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, DISCUSSIONS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

45

5.0 Introduction 45

5.1 Summary of fmdings and discussions 45

5.1.1 The effects of fertility rate on population growth in Bumanya sub-county Kaliro

district 45

5.1.2. Fertility rate trend in BumanyaKaliro district 45

5.1.3. Trend of population growth in Bumanya sub-county Kaliro district 45

5.1.4 Cause of the high fertility rate in Bumanya sub-county Kaliro district 46

5.2 Conclusion 46

5.3 Recommendation 47

5.4 Further studies 48