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Show Lowest Birth Rate Among Women of Most Schooling . How the number of years women wom-en devote to their education relatively rela-tively lowers the birth rate among them is revealed by statistics sta-tistics collected for the first time during the 1940 census and covering cover-ing 2,638,000 married white women wom-en aged 45-49 years, according to Collier's. Those who had completed one to four years of grade school had an average of 4.33 children and those who had completed eight years had an average of 2.78; while the women who had finished college averaged 1.23 children. |