Dynamics of the Muslim‐Hindu differential in family planning practices in rural East Pakistan

Bibliographic Data

ID10518775
AuthorsAnnie Aitken (0000-0001-5522-7825, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, corresponding author), John Stoeckel (Knoxville College)
Year1971
Volume18
Issue3
Pages268-276
Publication date1971-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Biology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-766X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19485565.1971.9987929
PMID5120879
OpenAlexW2018119647
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited7

A 1968 study analyzing the relationship between religious affiliation and family planning practice in a rural East Pakistan area was conducted by interviewing a probability sample of 1600 currently married Hindu and Muslim women. The differential appeared to be inconsistent and often insignificant when the control variables of social and demographic factors were applied. The differential disappears in cases where the husbands occupation is unskilled worker possibly due to equal exposure of Hindu and unsecluded Muslim women to developmental programs; in cases of no land ownership when economic hardships may transcend the importance of religious values in influencing family planning practices of both groups; and in cases where the women are most affected by traditional norms or modern orientations. Childless Hindu and Muslim women under traditional pressure to have children do not practice contraception. Those modernized women in both groups who delay marriage until they are over 15 years old are educated or have educated husbands and who are cooperative members differed little in family planning practice. Thus if practice has an effect on fertility the Muslim-Hindu fertility differential may diminish as Pakistan develops and becomes more modernized

Differential (mechanical device · Economic growth · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Geography · Hinduism · Interview · Islam · Modernization theory · Population · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Anthropology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Engineering · Gender Studies · Global Maternal and Child Health · Islamic Studies and History · Religious studies

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