Search Results for Indian fertility

... of Heredity , 65 , 169 – 174 . Indian Institute of Public Opinion ( 1967 ). Urban attitudes towards family planning . Monthly Public Opinion Survey , 31 , 3 – 30 . Jairath , V. K. ( 1975 ). Fertility decisions in rural India . In T. S. Epstein , & D. Jackson (Eds...

... ). Vilyatpur 1848–1968: Social and Economic Change in a North Indian Village . Berkeley : University of California Press . Kleinman David S. ( 1973 ). Fertility Variation and Resources in Rural India (1961) . Economic Development and Cultural Change , 21 , 679 – 696 . 10.1086/450670...

... evidence of such an increase in natural fertility among Canadian Indians. The main underlying cause is found to be in the massive, almost abrupt, shift from prolonged breastfeeding to bottle feeding which took place prior to the onset of large-scale birth control practices among Canadian Indians...

... diferencia más grande entre las tasasdefecundidad urbano-rural prevaleció entre los chinos. Summary During theearlypostwar years up to1957, the three main races in Malaya-Malays, Chinese, and Indians—experienced some differences in their levels of fertility. The lowest fertility was recorded among the Malays...

... analyses use data from three waves of the Indian National Family Health Surveys. We find that this framework can account for a substantial portion of the variation in the total fertility rate (TFR) over time and across states. Our estimates focus attention on the critical components of contemporary Indian...

... fertility transition. Substantial declines in fertility have been recorded for all three of the major ethnic communities in the Malaysian plural society. Most dramatic have been the almost 60 percent declines in Chinese and Indian fertility (Chinese TFRs are 6.5 in 1958 and 2.7 in 1983; comparable Indian...

... of the marriage variables, rural Indian or Pakistani women still have the highest cumulative fertility and urban Chinese women with more than five years of schooling still have the lowest cumulative fertility. 8 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1969 1969 Early Marriage Marriage...

...Jenna Nobles; Elizabeth Frankenberg; Duncan Thomas Abstract Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. We investigate the fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed...

...K. Venkatacharya Abstract The impact of induced abortion on fertility under Indian conditions is studied in this paper. The model is executed on a computer. First, matrices of birth probabilities specific to age and age at marriage are obtained, with the help of a simulation model, under various...

..., there are no differ- ences in fertility behavior between high and low status males. DATA AND METHODS The Sample This analysis is based upon data from a survey conducted by the Indian In- stitute of Public Opinion in February, 1969. The study covered four states in North India-Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal...

... by variations in work experience. The results are conditional in that the relationships hold more for whites than for blacks or Indians. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1977 1977 Labor Force Participation Family Formation Role Conflict Female Employment Fertility Behavior...

... ). Problems in Path Analysis and Causal Inferences . In Edgar F. Borgatta (Ed.), Sociological Methodology: 1969 (pp. 38 – 73 ). San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, Inc. . Jain , S. P. ( 1964 ). Indian Fertility-Our Knowledge and Gaps, Part II . Journal of Family Welfare (Bombay) , 11 , 6...

...," Population Studies, XVI, No.3 (March, 1963), 257-70; David M. Heer, "Fertility Differences between Indian and Spanish-speaking Parts of Andean Countries," Population Studies, XVIII, No.1 (July, 1964),71-84; Carmen A. Mir6, "The Population of Latin America," Demography, I, No.1 (1964), 15-41; and United...

... Indian Fertility Patterns, 1910 and 1940 to 1980: A Research Note . American Indian Quarterly , 15 , 359 – 67 . 10.2307/1185475 Thirteenth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1910, Vol. I. Population 1910, General Report and Analysis . ( 1913 ). Washington, DC : U.S. Government...

... Knodel J. , & van de Walle E. ( 1979 ). Lessons from the past: policy implications of historical fertility studies . Population and Development Review , 5 , 217 – 295 . 10.2307/1971824 Kumar J. ( 1971 ). A comparison between current Indian fertility and late nineteenth...

... model are presented using data from U.S. marriage cohorts and from an Indian sample. Parity differentials in these reproduction parameters are investigated, and the ramifications for fertility estimate and projection discussed. 26 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1976 1976...

.... An unbiased estimator is presented which explicitly models the way in which observations are selected into the sample. The estimator is then employed on Guatemalan and Indian data. No support for the notion that women who answer “up to God” are women who would have given relatively large numeric answers...

... 5 from the last four Indian censuses, we examine the relationship between the sex ratio at one point in time and the change in sex ratio over the next 10 years by district. Fixed-effects models show that when accounting for unobserved district-level characteristics—including total fertility rate...

... decline and increasing gender imbalance in India, including a possible South-Indian turnaround . Development and Change , 302 , 237 – 263 . 10.1111/1467-7660.00116 Basu A. M. ( 2000 ). Fertility decline and worsening gender bias in India: A response to S. Irudaya Rajan et al . Development...

... is lower than Malay or Indian fertility at all ages under forty, an im- portant shift. The racial differences in fertility in metropolitan areas are partly due to differences in the ages at which women marry. In the 15-19 year-old age group, fifteen percent of both Malay and Indian women were currently...