You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The table below presents the number of children ever born to women aged 40-44 years in Australia for each year the information was collected since 1981. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words. Number of children ever born, Women aged 40–44 years Four or One Two Three more None child children children children year % % % % % 2006 15.9 13.2 38.3 21.5 11.0 1996 12.8 11.3 38.2 24.6 13.1 1986 9.7 8.7 35.6 27.0 18.9 1981 8.5 7.6 29.0 27.4 27.6 Source: ABS Births Australia 2001, 2006 (3301.0)

The table shows the quantity of offspring born that belongs to Australian women in 40 to 44 years old in 4 period year: 1981, 1986, 1996 and 2006. Overall, It is noticable that woman in the given age giving birth to one or two children or even not reproducing increased from 1981 to 2006, while the decreasing firgues were the number of three or four children ever born. The highest percentage of offspring ever born over 4 period years were the group of two children, which increased approximately 10% than two remaining increasing group, starting from 29% in 1981 and reaching 38% in 2006. Besides, the group of none and one children experienced a slight change, from 8, 5% to 15, 9% and 7, 6% to 13, 2% respectively. Another considerable point was the decline of three children and four or more children over 4 period years. From 1981 to 1986, there was no significant decrease of three children born, from 27, 4% to 27. 0%, but after nearly 20 years, this group slowly reached 24, 6% in 1996 and then 21. 5% in 2006. On the other hand, the group of four children born experienced the dramatic change over the given year, starting at 27. 6% higher the other, however, it plummeted sharply to 18. 9% in 5 years, then reached 13. 1% next 10 years and finally seized 11% in 2006.