Effect of Socio - economic and demographic variables on fert ility in far western Nepal ( A case study of kanchanpur)
Journal Title: International Journal of Scientific Research and Management - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
This study examines the effect of socio - economic and demographic characteristics on fertility rates using a household level survey. Fertility is one of the main components of population growth. In societies where childbearing prior to marriage is not socially acceptable, postponement of marriage contributes significantly to a reduction in fertilit y level by shortening the total reproductive life of women. This, in turn, reduces the number of children a woman is likely to have and has a negative impact on the population growth rate of a country. A major part of this paper attempts to study the effec t of various socio - economic variables such as literacy, caste, employment, and age at marriage on fertility. In order to examine the differentials in fertility of women in study area, a regression model approach is used to measure the extent of the interac tion of different type of effects of various socio - economic and demographic variables. The estimated results showed that an increase in age at marriage significantly reduced total fertility of women. The estimation results emphasized the role of female edu cation in reducing total fertility and increasing age at marriage. Moreover, female educational effect had a strong inter - generational effect on age at marriage, and this effect was stronger than the effect of male educational attainment. The relationship between the fertility levels and socio - economic variables shows that female literacy and the number of females attending school were negatively related to fertility of the study area, whereas the other socio - economic variables showed a positive relationshi p. One implication of these results is that from the policy point of view, all other things being equal, government should accord a significant priority to female education and, in particular, a higher priority compared to male schooling
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Narendra Bahadur Chand
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