title: Clinical measurement of trend in fertility of women attending family planning clinics in Ghana.
abstract: 1. The need for a simple method of measuring trend in fertility in family planning programme has been stated. 2. The theory of the numerator analysis of age and parity or age and number of living children and its variants the "three area" and the "four quadrant methods" have also been stated. 3. The data from the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital have been analysed. 4. The finding was that the proportion of women of the high fertility group is reducing while that of women in lower fertility is increasing with time. 5. The relevance of this type of analysis to national family planning programme has been emphasised.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D005869:Ghana; D006801:Humans; D010298:Parity