Compare methods

	Indirect Standardization	Total Fertility Rate
Field	Demography	Demography
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2001	2001
Originator	Classical demographic method (formalized by Preston, Heuveline & Guillot)	Classical demographic index (formalized by Preston, Heuveline & Guillot)
Type	Rate adjustment using a standard schedule of group-specific rates	Period summary fertility index synthesizing age-specific fertility rates
Seminal source	Preston, S. H., Heuveline, P., & Guillot, M. (2001). Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes. Blackwell. ISBN: 9781557864512	Preston, S. H., Heuveline, P., & Guillot, M. (2001). Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes. Blackwell. ISBN: 9781557864512
Aliases	Indirect method of standardization, Standardized mortality ratio, SMR method, Dolaylı Standardizasyon	TFR, Period total fertility rate, Sum of age-specific fertility rates, Toplam Doğurganlık Hızı
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Summary	Indirect standardization is a demographic technique for comparing summary rates when a study population's own group-specific rates are too sparse to be reliable. Instead of reweighting the study population's rates, it applies a trusted standard schedule of group-specific rates to the study population's own structure to compute the number of events that would be expected. The ratio of observed to expected events — the standardized mortality ratio (SMR) — measures how the study population's risk compares with the standard, adjusted for its composition.	The total fertility rate (TFR) is the central period measure of fertility in demography: the average number of children a woman would bear over her lifetime if she experienced, at each age, the age-specific fertility rates observed in a given year. Computed by summing age-specific fertility rates across the reproductive ages, the TFR removes the influence of population age structure and gives a single, intuitive figure — children per woman — that is comparable across populations and over time.