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Fertility isn't the only factor in a family's size. It does seem that lower income families have more children. https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birt
by RandallBrown 5y ago
Fertility isn't the only factor in a family's size.
It does seem that lower income families have more children.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-family-income-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-poverty/cps-finc/finc-01.html https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p... (The data is in an excel spreadsheet.)
- candybar 5y agoFertility is literally just a measure of how many people children people are having. Your data is largely capturing the fact the age at which your income tends to peak and the age at which people tend to have children are very far apart.