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
ABSTRACT This research investigates the effect of fertility rate on population growth in Bumanya sub-county Kaliro district from 1960-2018. Using both multiple and simple regression analysis, my objectives were; to find out the trend offertility rate in Bumanya sub-county Kaliro. To find out the effect of fertility rate on population growth, and using a descriptive and qualitative method, Ifound out that there is a decrease in the fertility rate though the population has steady increase over the study period. Fertility rate had a negative effect on population growth. From the purpose of my steady that was investigating the effect of fertility rate on population growth in Bumanya sub-county Kaliro district; Ifound out that fertility had a significant effect on population growth in Bumanya subcounty Kaliro district. Therefore, there should be an urgent steps tale to reduce on the population and fertility rate like the use offamily planning method, population control programs should also be designed, there should be harsh rules and law that should be designed to parent who face children as wealth and also Universal education should also be provided to children mainly girls so as to reduce fertility rate and control population growth.
