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  • Title: Fertility in contemporary Calcutta: a biosocial profile.
    Author: Pakrasi K, Halder A.
    Journal: Genus; 1981; 37(3-4):201-19. PubMed ID: 12264940.
    Abstract:
    A comprehensive survey of some aspects of family planning was conducted in the urban area under the municipal Corportation of Calcutta during December 1973 and March 1974 in an effort to obtain information about the extent to which the population was recognizing with contraceptive use the need for raising a small family. All currently married women under age 50 who were normally resident members of Calcutta constituted the universe of population for this survey. The design adopted for the sampling of urban households was the usual 2 stage sampling with blocks of houses as 1st stage units and individual households within blocks as 2nd stage units. The findings reported are based on a sample of 1534 currently married women. The average number of live births as reported by the women was 3.39. The Muslim mothers had the highest average number of live births (4.42); the Christian and other non-Hindu and non-Muslim mothers had the lowest average (3.02). Among the newly married women who were in the maiden year of family building, the Caste Hindu wives had given live births in relatively higher order (0.38) than the rest of the mothers. Among the currently married women, those who belonged to the Urdu speaking households registered the highest level of fertility. The women whose husbands were working as clerks were found to experience the lowest level of fertility (2.87 livebirths). The wives of husbands engaged in "miscellaneous" occupations had the highest level of fertility (3.79 livebirths). The married women from households with the lowest monthly expenditure (per capita) reported the highest fertility (a little more than 4 livebirths). The women with the highest monthly expenditure level had the lowest fertility (a little more than 2 livebirths). These findings can be utilized as useful indicators in the national family planning program. This is all the more the case, since it is already known that about 2/3 of the Urdu speaking and the Hindi speaking couples of Calcutta declared that they never use family planning methods.
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