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  • Title: Socioeconomic factors and effect on fertility of husband-wife separation due to migration.
    Author: Yadava KN, Yadava GS.
    Journal: Biol Soc; 1990 Sep; 7(3):139-44. PubMed ID: 12283796.
    Abstract:
    Socioeconomic characteristics of migrant and non-migrant couples from 19 villages in eastern Uttar Pradesh state, India were analyzed to explain the commonly reported lower fertility of migrants. In these communities, men migrate to cities for work, returning home intermittently. Data were taken from the Rural Development and Population Growth sample survey of 1978, encompassing 3514 households, in 19 remote, semi-urban and newly industrialized villages. Results from 35 castes, income levels and male educational levels were grouped into 5 levels for analysis. 83% of male migrants were married; of these 75% left their wives in the villages. The average number of children was 2.88 for migrant couples, and 3.81 for non-migrants. Generally lower castes had more children, with a linear shaped curve, with higher fertility for lowest and highest socioeconomic classes. Average number of children of both migrant and nonmigrant groups was lower in proportion to education of both spouses. There were few highly educated wives, and some of these with migrant husbands had atypically high fertility.
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