  
<prompt> Total Fertility Rates by Selected Background Characteristics
 Number of Children 
 [["Turkey", 2.2], ["", ""], ["Urban", 2.1], ["Rural", 2.7], ["", ""], ["West", 1.9], ["South", 2.3], ["Central", 1.9], ["North", 1.9], ["East", 3.7], ["", ""], ["Istanbul", 1.8], ["Southeast Anatolia", 4.2], ["", ""], ["No education/ Primary Incomplete", 3.7], ["First Level Primary", 2.4], ["Second Level Primary", 1.8], ["High School and Higher", 1.4]] 
 <response> At current fertility rates, a woman in Turkey will give birth to an average of 2.2 children during her reproductive years -a total fertility rate that is 50 percent lower than the rate recorded in 1970s. Fertility rate is highest in the East (3.6 children per woman) and lowest in the West (1.9 children per woman). Women living in rural areas have more children than women living in urban areas (2.7 births per woman and 2.1 births per woman respectively). Women who have no education have 1.3 more children than the women with first level primary education, and 2.3 children more than the women with at least high school education.  