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Study of Influence of Caste Differentials on Fertility and Contraception |
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PP: 149-160 |
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Shubhagata Roy,
K.K.Singh,
Brijesh P.Singh,
Kushagra Gupta,
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Abstract |
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| Controlling fertility is one of the major goals of the developing countries like India. The tempo of fertility is measured by different indicators like CBR, ASFR and TFR. Several studies have been made to obtain the indirect measurement of these fertility indicators and various models based on age specific fertility rates have been developed by demographers which give information on fertility up to the age composition (for ASFR) or based on the assumption of experiencing current age specific fertility (for TFR).
In the present study, 7342 married females between 15-49 years from Uttar Pradesh, whose marital duration is more than 5 years, have been taken to study the distribution on different background characteristics and their behavior. Firstly, a univariate study was done to know the impact on contraceptive use and total children born (TCB) in last five years and further multivariate study has been carried out to know the effect of background characteristics and behavior on TCB in last five years jointly at different caste differentials.
The results show that highly educated working females belonging to urban areas and nuclear families have lesser children than the females who are non-working, uneducated or less educated, belonging to rural areas and joint families across all castes. The results also show that as compared to the females of 40 yrs or more, 15-19 yrs group has 3.6 times , 20-24 yrs group has 4.5 times, 25-29 yrs group has 3.4 times, 30-34 yrs group has 2 times and 35-40 yrs group has about 1.4 times high chance of high TCB. This re-establishes the fact that chances of high fertility diminishes as the age of females increase except for the case of 15-19 yrs, which is actually an immature age for child bearing.
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