Flip over to the Occupy NL blog and you’ll see a critique of some recent SRBP posts on the provincial government’s bonus cash for live babies program. Let’s summarise the critique and then go from there. While this summary will get you through this post, to be fair and to
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Fertility Rates: a different perspective #nlpoli
Via Occupy Newfoundland and Labrador, a different take on the success of the bootie call from the one presented in this corner recently. -srbp-
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Teens and 40s #nlpoli
As the last instalment in our survey of birth rates, let’s take a look at the group 15 to 19 and the other end of the scale for statistics, women aged 40-44 at the time of the child’s birth. The blue line is the number of births to mothers between
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The 30-Somethings #nlpoli
The number of babies born to mothers in their 30s in Newfoundland and Labrador has declined over the past couple of decades. But the drop isn’t as dramatic as the decline among the 20-somethings. What stands out in this chart is the way the older age cohort – 35-39 –
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The 20-Something Birth Rates #nlpoli
As we told you a couple of weeks ago, it doesn’t look like the provincial government’s policy of paying cash for live births produced any improvement in the birthrate in the province except for the year they announced the bonus cash. If you look at the number of births by
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: So much for Danny’s Bootie Bonus #nlpoli
During the 2007 general election, the provincial Conservatives announced a policy under which they would pay $1000 to any woman in the province who gave birth to a live baby or or adopted one. SRBP called it the bootie call. Danny Williams tried to claim the idea was similar to
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