Radheshyam Bairagi
Biographic Data
| ID | 664579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Radheshyam Bairagi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Radheshyam |
| FAMILY NAME | Bairagi |
| SIGNATURE | BAIRAGI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Traditional Roles, Modern Behavior
Although rural Bangladesh retains many traditional socioeconomic characteristics, the use of contraceptives has increased over the past three decades. This paper examines the influence a mother-in-law has on her young daughter-in-law's use of contraceptives in the rural community of Matlab, Bangladesh. The study uses data from 413 interviews conducted in two areas of the community with different family planning programs, which have affected diffe…
Use of Periodic Abstinence in Bangladesh
Data from a nationally representative study in Bangladesh (BDHS 1996–97) were analysed to identify significant predictors of use of periodic abstinence, in comparison with other modern contraceptive methods. The study found that women in Bangladesh mostly use modern methods during their peak reproductive years, after which some of them switch to periodic abstinence. These women tend to be more from educated and from higher socioeconomic backgroun…
Determinants of Pill Failure in Rural Bangladesh
The pill is the most popular family planning method in Bangladesh. However, the failure rate of this method in Matlab, a typical rural area, has been found to be very high. It is estimated that with the current level of failure of the pill and other temporary contraceptives in Matlab, it is unlikely that fertility in Bangladesh will come down to replacement level without a change in contraceptive method mix. It is, therefore, important to know th…
Fertility Intentions and Subsequent Fertility Behaviour in Matlab
This study examines the extent of the interrelationship between future fertility intention and subsequent fertility behaviour in rural Bangladesh using longitudinal data. It confirms that fertility intention is an important predictor of subsequent fertility behaviour for rural Bangladeshi women. Women wanting no more children are over three times less likely to have a child during a 5-year follow-up than those wanting more children. A multivariat…
Contraceptive Failure
This study investigated the levels, trends and determinants of contraceptive use-failure in Matlab, Bangladesh, using a set of prospective data on 25,960 women of reproductive age. The data were extracted from the Record Keeping System (RKS) of Matlab for the period 1978–94. If there was any live birth during the use or within 7 months after the discontinuation of use, it was considered as a failure. The life table technique and hazard model were…
Estimating childhood mortality trends from routine data
The Preceding Birth Technique (PBT) has been proposed as a method suitable for ascertaining the prevailing level of under-2 mortality in countries without full vital registration. It is a monitoring tool rather than a method that will replace other established approaches to measuring childhood mortality levels and differentials that other demographers have developed over the last 30 years. The principle obstacle to the wider adoption of the PBT i…
Effects of Family Sex Composition on Fertility Preference and Behavior in Rural Bangladesh
Effects of family sex composition on fertility preference and behaviour in rural Bangladesh
The effects of family sex composition on fertility preferences and behaviour during the period 1977–88 are examined using longitudinal data from Matlab, Bangladesh. The sex composition of living children was found to be systematically related to fertility preferences and behaviour, with a higher number of sons at each family size associated with a higher percentage of women wanting no more children, a higher percentage currently using contracepti…
Son Preference and Fertility in Bangladesh
Researchers followed 22819 women from Matlab in rural Bangladesh with known sex composition of living children as of July 1982 for 3.5 years. They hypothesized that the effect of son preference on fertility is stronger in a population with adequate and available contraceptive service and relatively high contraceptive prevalence than a population with little to no contraceptive use or access. From July 1982-end of 1984 the contraceptive prevalence…
A comment on fred arnold’s “measuring the effect of sex preference on fertility”
This paper critiques a mathematical measure (Arnolds Measure) of the effect of sex preference on fertility and contraceptive use. The author feels that such an equation gives an underestimate of the effect of sex preference as a result of the presence of heterogeneity in sex preference. In practical situations some heterogeneity in preferences is expected particularly at the higher parities in any population. Rural Bangladesh is an example where …
Drs. Bairagi and Edmonston Respond
Drs. Bairagi and Edmonston Respond Radheshyam Bairagi, and Barry Edmonston A AyiomamitisCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.77.10.1356 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Sex Preference for Children and Its Implications for Fertility in Rural Bangladesh
In this study, the level and pattern of sex preference for children and its effects on fertility intention, fertility-regulating behavior, and fertility implications for women are investigated. Data are from a 1976 cross-sectional KAP (knowledge, attitude, and practice of family planning) survey and a three-year longitudinal study, conducted between December 1976 and 31 December 1979, of vital events for 860 married women of childbearing age from…
Food Crisis, Nutrition, and Female Children in Rural Bangladesh
This article assesses the effect of the 1974-1975 famine on sex-biased allocation of food among children aged 1-4 in Bangladesh. The study was conducted in 12 Matlab villages on 1400 children. Anthropometric indexes were used as a measure of nutrition and floor space in each familys dwelling was used as an indicator of socioeconomic status. A sharp downward trend in malnutrition occurred over the study period with rapid seasonal fluctuation in in…
Dynamics of child nutrition in rural Bangladesh
Nutritional status determined by weight‐for‐age of about 1000 children under four years of age and its relationship to season and socioeconomic variables were investigated in a rural area of Bangladesh. Data were collected at three six‐month intervals starting in May‐July 1978. Some change in nutritional status and its relationship to socioeconomic variables was noted over the study period and compared to that of the famine period 1974–1975. Seas…
Food Crisis, Nutrition, and Female Children in Rural Bangladesh
This article assesses the effect of the 1974-1975 famine on sex-biased allocation of food among children aged 1-4 in Bangladesh. The study was conducted in 12 Matlab villages on 1400 children. Anthropometric indexes were used as a measure of nutrition and floor space in each familys dwelling was used as an indicator of socioeconomic status. A sharp downward trend in malnutrition occurred over the study period with rapid seasonal fluctuation in in…
Son Preference and Fertility in Bangladesh
Researchers followed 22819 women from Matlab in rural Bangladesh with known sex composition of living children as of July 1982 for 3.5 years. They hypothesized that the effect of son preference on fertility is stronger in a population with adequate and available contraceptive service and relatively high contraceptive prevalence than a population with little to no contraceptive use or access. From July 1982-end of 1984 the contraceptive prevalence…
Sex Preference for Children and Its Implications for Fertility in Rural Bangladesh
In this study, the level and pattern of sex preference for children and its effects on fertility intention, fertility-regulating behavior, and fertility implications for women are investigated. Data are from a 1976 cross-sectional KAP (knowledge, attitude, and practice of family planning) survey and a three-year longitudinal study, conducted between December 1976 and 31 December 1979, of vital events for 860 married women of childbearing age from…
A comment on fred arnold’s “measuring the effect of sex preference on fertility”
This paper critiques a mathematical measure (Arnolds Measure) of the effect of sex preference on fertility and contraceptive use. The author feels that such an equation gives an underestimate of the effect of sex preference as a result of the presence of heterogeneity in sex preference. In practical situations some heterogeneity in preferences is expected particularly at the higher parities in any population. Rural Bangladesh is an example where …
Estimating childhood mortality trends from routine data
The Preceding Birth Technique (PBT) has been proposed as a method suitable for ascertaining the prevailing level of under-2 mortality in countries without full vital registration. It is a monitoring tool rather than a method that will replace other established approaches to measuring childhood mortality levels and differentials that other demographers have developed over the last 30 years. The principle obstacle to the wider adoption of the PBT i…
Dynamics of child nutrition in rural Bangladesh
Nutritional status determined by weight‐for‐age of about 1000 children under four years of age and its relationship to season and socioeconomic variables were investigated in a rural area of Bangladesh. Data were collected at three six‐month intervals starting in May‐July 1978. Some change in nutritional status and its relationship to socioeconomic variables was noted over the study period and compared to that of the famine period 1974–1975. Seas…
Sex Preference for Children and Its Implications for Fertility in Rural Bangladesh
In this study, the level and pattern of sex preference for children and its effects on fertility intention, fertility-regulating behavior, and fertility implications for women are investigated. Data are from a 1976 cross-sectional KAP (knowledge, attitude, and practice of family planning) survey and a three-year longitudinal study, conducted between December 1976 and 31 December 1979, of vital events for 860 married women of childbearing age from…
Food Crisis, Nutrition, and Female Children in Rural Bangladesh
This article assesses the effect of the 1974-1975 famine on sex-biased allocation of food among children aged 1-4 in Bangladesh. The study was conducted in 12 Matlab villages on 1400 children. Anthropometric indexes were used as a measure of nutrition and floor space in each familys dwelling was used as an indicator of socioeconomic status. A sharp downward trend in malnutrition occurred over the study period with rapid seasonal fluctuation in in…
A comment on fred arnold’s “measuring the effect of sex preference on fertility”
This paper critiques a mathematical measure (Arnolds Measure) of the effect of sex preference on fertility and contraceptive use. The author feels that such an equation gives an underestimate of the effect of sex preference as a result of the presence of heterogeneity in sex preference. In practical situations some heterogeneity in preferences is expected particularly at the higher parities in any population. Rural Bangladesh is an example where …
Drs. Bairagi and Edmonston Respond
Drs. Bairagi and Edmonston Respond Radheshyam Bairagi, and Barry Edmonston A AyiomamitisCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.77.10.1356 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Son Preference and Fertility in Bangladesh
Researchers followed 22819 women from Matlab in rural Bangladesh with known sex composition of living children as of July 1982 for 3.5 years. They hypothesized that the effect of son preference on fertility is stronger in a population with adequate and available contraceptive service and relatively high contraceptive prevalence than a population with little to no contraceptive use or access. From July 1982-end of 1984 the contraceptive prevalence…
Effects of family sex composition on fertility preference and behaviour in rural Bangladesh
The effects of family sex composition on fertility preferences and behaviour during the period 1977–88 are examined using longitudinal data from Matlab, Bangladesh. The sex composition of living children was found to be systematically related to fertility preferences and behaviour, with a higher number of sons at each family size associated with a higher percentage of women wanting no more children, a higher percentage currently using contracepti…
Effects of Family Sex Composition on Fertility Preference and Behavior in Rural Bangladesh
Estimating childhood mortality trends from routine data
The Preceding Birth Technique (PBT) has been proposed as a method suitable for ascertaining the prevailing level of under-2 mortality in countries without full vital registration. It is a monitoring tool rather than a method that will replace other established approaches to measuring childhood mortality levels and differentials that other demographers have developed over the last 30 years. The principle obstacle to the wider adoption of the PBT i…
Contraceptive Failure
This study investigated the levels, trends and determinants of contraceptive use-failure in Matlab, Bangladesh, using a set of prospective data on 25,960 women of reproductive age. The data were extracted from the Record Keeping System (RKS) of Matlab for the period 1978–94. If there was any live birth during the use or within 7 months after the discontinuation of use, it was considered as a failure. The life table technique and hazard model were…
Fertility Intentions and Subsequent Fertility Behaviour in Matlab
This study examines the extent of the interrelationship between future fertility intention and subsequent fertility behaviour in rural Bangladesh using longitudinal data. It confirms that fertility intention is an important predictor of subsequent fertility behaviour for rural Bangladeshi women. Women wanting no more children are over three times less likely to have a child during a 5-year follow-up than those wanting more children. A multivariat…
Determinants of Pill Failure in Rural Bangladesh
The pill is the most popular family planning method in Bangladesh. However, the failure rate of this method in Matlab, a typical rural area, has been found to be very high. It is estimated that with the current level of failure of the pill and other temporary contraceptives in Matlab, it is unlikely that fertility in Bangladesh will come down to replacement level without a change in contraceptive method mix. It is, therefore, important to know th…
Use of Periodic Abstinence in Bangladesh
Data from a nationally representative study in Bangladesh (BDHS 1996–97) were analysed to identify significant predictors of use of periodic abstinence, in comparison with other modern contraceptive methods. The study found that women in Bangladesh mostly use modern methods during their peak reproductive years, after which some of them switch to periodic abstinence. These women tend to be more from educated and from higher socioeconomic backgroun…
Traditional Roles, Modern Behavior
Although rural Bangladesh retains many traditional socioeconomic characteristics, the use of contraceptives has increased over the past three decades. This paper examines the influence a mother-in-law has on her young daughter-in-law's use of contraceptives in the rural community of Matlab, Bangladesh. The study uses data from 413 interviews conducted in two areas of the community with different family planning programs, which have affected diffe…
Population (12 works) · Demography (11 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Fertility (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)