SI-hep Group 5

1) Helena Kersnič

2) Katja Premrl

3) Teja Kerševan

4) Aljaž Barbiš

1) Chair: Aljaž Barbiš

2) Secretary: Teja Kerševan

3) Progress chaser: Helena Kersnič

4) Timekeeper: Katja Premrl

LOW BIRTH RATE IN SLOVENIA

Definition:

Why are we talking about low birth rate as a problem? Natality is problematic from many points of view. The main reasons are in social and psychological natality basis. Decreasing of natality is the main factor which causes the population to grow old. Preventing the population to grow old could be done only by increasing natality with various meauserments.

10 questions we are about to research:

1. Which are the indirect factors for low birth rate in Slovenia? (source: Černič Istenič, Majda (1994) Rodnost v Sloveniji. Ljubljana: Znanstveno in publicistično središče.)

2. Which are the direct factors for low birth rate in Slovenia? (source: Černič Istenič, Majda (1994) Rodnost v Sloveniji. Ljubljana: Znanstveno in publicistično središče.)

3. What is the reproduction rate in Slovenia in 2005? (source: www.stat.si)

4. What is the difference in reproduction rate in Slovenia between 1954 and 2005? (source: www.stat.si)

5. Why families in Slovenia do not have more children? (source: www.stat.si)

6. What are the differences in number of children in city and in rural families? (source: www.stat.si)

7. How education influences on planning a family? (source: Stropnik, Nada (1997) Ekonomski vidik straševstva. Ljubljana: Znanstveno in publicistično središče.)

8. How economical status influences on planing a family?(source: Stropnik, Nada (1997) Ekonomski vidik straševstva. Ljubljana: Znanstveno in publicistično središče.)

9. At which age do people in average decide to have children? (source: Statistični urad Republike Slovenije, Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve – Centralni register prebivalstva.)

10. How occupation influences on the number of children in the family? (source: Stropnik, Nada (1997) Ekonomski vidik straševstva. Ljubljana: Znanstveno in publicistično središče.)

Katja will answer questions 1, 2, 7

Helena will answer questions 4, 5, 8

Teja will answer questions 3, 6

Aljaž will answer questions 9, 10

Issue 2: write issue 2 here

memeber 1 (name): dicuss here

memeber 2 (name): dicuss here

memeber 3 (name): dicuss here

memeber 4 (name): dicuss here

memeber 5 (name): dicuss here

Decision 2: write decision 2 here

etc.

The first meeting took place at the FDV Library, 8/11/06, at 10 am

Present: All members of the group were present.

Agenda:

1. Discussion about the topic for PBL

2. Distribution of tasks

3. Further meetings

Item 1:

We had two suggestions for a PBL topic: homeless people and low birth rate. Since we all agreed that the problem with homeless people in our country is in general not critical, we choosed to research the low birth rate problem.

Item 2:

We have distributed the tasks but just for a start. Firstly, everyone will make a search for sources and literature to find the data, descriptions and definitions and if it will be necessary we will distribute the tasks in a different order.

Assignments:

Helena will define the problem

Teja will try to find reasons for low birth rate

Katja will list consequences and define them

Aljaž will try to find solutions to the problem

Item 3:

We decided that all our next meetings will take place on this wiki site.

Minutes taker: Teja Kerševan

Chair: Aljaž Barbiš

Progress chaser: Helena Kersnič

Timekeeper: Katja Premrl

The second meeting took place at the FDV Library, 16/11/06, at 10 am

Present: All members of the group were present

Agenda:

1. Defining the problem

2. Defining 10 questions

3. Distribution of tasks

Item 1:

We defined the problem of low birth rate in Slovene first so we had to translate it.

Item 2:

We wrote 10 research questions on which we will try to find the answers

Item 3:

We distributed the 10 questions to the members of the group.

Minutes taker: Teja Kerševan

Virtual meeting

All members of the gropu have written two or three questions about his issue and define all sources for answers.

We all agreed that we will finish answering on our question and combined the answers and reports of distributed tasks together and finish the project. Our next meeting will be about the presentation of the PBL assignment.

Chairman: Aljaž

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