A comparison between current Indian fertility and late nineteenth-century Swedish and Finnish fertility

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ID4267553
AuthorsJoginder Kumar (0000-0001-9878-1228, corresponding author)
Year1971
Volume25
Issue2
Pages269-282
Publication date1971-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopulation Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00324728.1971.10405802
PMID22070111
OpenAlexW2332675469
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited6

The paper aims to probe causes of the current high level of the crude birth rate in India. This is accomplished by comparing the current Indian fertility level with that of Sweden and Finland during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. By utilizing marital distribution, age distribution and age-specific marital fertility rates of the three countries, the basic demographic causes of high fertility in India can be established. In the second part, the factors causing age-specific marital fertility rates in India to be lower than nineteenth-century Sweden and Finland are discussed. This is done by comparing the levels of the followingsix variables, operating within marriage, between Indian and Scandinavian cultures: (1) Abstinence - voluntary and involuntary, (2) Frequency of coitus, (3) Incidence of sterility - primary and secondary, (4) Contraception and sterilization, (5) Incidence of foetal mortality and (6) Incidence of induced abortions

Abstinence · Birth rate · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Geography · Incidence (geometry) · Marital status · Population · Quarter (Canadian coin) · Research methodology · Sociology · Sterilization (economics) · Total fertility rate · demographic modeling and climate adaptation · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Medicine

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