Fertility Pattern and Its Correlates in North East India

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ID5218191
AuthorsSanku Dey (0000-0001-8523-8189, Department of Statistics, St. Anthony’s College , Shillong 793 001, Meghalaya, India), Sankar Goswami (Department of Statistics, Shillong College , Shillong, 793 003, Meghalaya, India)
Year2009
Volume26
Issue2
Pages145-152
Publication date2009-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Human Ecology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0970-9274 • E-ISSN: 2456-6608
PublisherKamla Raj Enterprises (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/09709274.2009.11906176
OpenAlexW67156833
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited3

In this paper, fertility differentials of married couples of North Eastern States were studied in relation to their different socio-demographic characteristics by using NFHS-2 data. Effects of socioeconomic factors that influence fertility viz. literacy, religion, occupation, socioeconomic status, child mortality and uses of contraceptives of spouses were analyzed. Mother’s age, age at marriage and duration of breast feeding has also been studied to observe their influence on fertility. Finally regression analyses were done for the couples who had and had not experienced child loss separately to identify the significant influential factors on fertility. Explanatory variables were included in the regression model after investigating the presence of multicollinearity

Family planning · Fertility · Geography · Literacy · Multicollinearity · Population · Regression analysis · Research methodology · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Statistics · Total fertility rate · Agricultural Economics and Practices · Agricultural risk and resilience · Demography · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Mathematics · Psychology

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